Cognitive Cycle in Mind Model CAM

Zhongzhi Shi, Xiaofeng Wang, Jinpeng Yue

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DOI: 10.4236/ijis.2011.12004                

Abstract

Cognitive cycle is a basic procedure of mental activities in cognitive level. Human cognition consists of cascading cycles of recurring brain events. This paper presents a cognitive cycle for the mind model CAM (Consciousness And Memory). Each cognitive cycle perceives the current situation, through motivation phase with reference to ongoing goals, and then composes internal or external action streams to reach the goals in response. We use dynamic description logic which is an extended description logic with action to formalize descriptions and algorithms of cognitive cycle. Two important algorithms, including hierarchical goal and action composition, is proposed in the paper.

Keywords

Cognitive Cycle, Motivation, Action Composition, CAM

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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