Introducing Emotions in an Analogy-Making Model

Decades of research have shown that emotions are an essential component of human intelligence. However there are few attempts to model the interplay of emotions and other cognitive processes. In this article, we investigate the integration of emotion in a hybrid cognitive architecture on analogy-making. Two computer simulations are conducted to explore the effects of emotion on memory retrieval and analogical mapping. The results are consistent with empirical findings and show that emotions can lead to complex behavior which could be beneficial for the adaptability of an embodied cognitive agent to its environment