Memory in Cognitive Architectures

Cognitive architectures use memory terms to explain how stored knowledge, active goals, procedural rules, and retrieval dynamics combine to produce behavior. They are useful because they separate memory from mere storage.

Core terms: ACT-R, Soar, CLARION, chunk, production, declarative memory, procedural memory, activation, base-level activation, spreading activation.

Terms that change meaning across fields: memory, activation, context, state, retrieval, procedural memory.

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