Special Issue on Higher-Level Cognition and Computation

Excerpt

One distinctive feature between humans and other animals, recent AI or robotic systems is higher-level cognition. This field connects many research fields and touches philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, psychology and neuroscience among others. This special issue highlights current research directions from an AI perspective. In a combination of survey articles, interviews with experts from AI, technical and project reports, this still emerging field becomes more and more precise. In each and every article of this special issue, connections to cognition and psychological aspects are drawn and it becomes obvious that many authors do not approach the problems from a single perspective, but all of them approach the problems from a multi- and even transdisciplinaric perspective. Most contributions deal with approaches from knowledge and reasoning and try to draw connections from AI to cognitive science. Fundamental questions about the way of how to measure machine intelligence, probabilistic methods for higher-level cognition, inductive reasoning, and the evaluation of spatial reasoning are addressed. These methods can approximate, imitate, and simulate human reasoning. …