Artificial Working Memory: A Psychological Approach

In this paper, we are going to look at how cognitive models of human memory and analogy-making can be used by artificial agents to represent context-specific knowledge, and to apply knowledge from more distant, or analogous, contexts. In particular, we will focus on an activation-based model of working memory, and a hybrid model of associative memory that is able to discover analogues and the correspondences between them. We will also look at a model of context-mediated behaviour, and we will close by identifying how these three models can be brought together and developed into an artificial working memory system