Spatial Working Memory in the LIDA Cognitive Architecture

Human spatial representations are known to be remarkablyrobust and efficient, and to be structured hierarchically. Inthis paper, we describe a biologically inspired computationalmodel of spatial working memory attempting to account forthese properties, based on the LIDA cognitive architecture. Wealso present preliminary results regarding a virtual reality experiment,which the model is able to account for, and the quantitativeproperties of the representation.

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