From Natural to Artificial Intelligence: Numerical Processing for Cognitive Tasks

Cognitive modeling can be derived from expert knowledge integration or experimental data analysis. This Chapter introduces these two main ways of modeling and concentrates on the latter aspect and the related numerical tools together with their possible role. More precisely, the evolutionary approach is presented for optimization and tuning, artificial neural networks for associative reasoning and the stochastic approach for planning. We then conclude on the need for a modular framework, integrating these numerical and other symbolic tools.