Incremental Object Perception in an Attention-Driven Cognitive Architecture.

With few exceptions, architectural approaches to modeling\ncognition have historically emphasized what happens in the\nmind following the transduction of environmental signals into\npercepts. To our knowledge, none of these architectures\nimplements a sophisticated, general theory of human attention.\nIn this paper we summarize progress to date on a new cognitive\narchitecture called ARCADIA that gives a central role to\nattention in both perception and cognition. First, we give an\noverview of the architecture, comparing it to other approaches\nwhen appropriate. Second, we present a model of incremental\nobject construction and property binding in ARCADIA using\nthe well known change blindness phenomena to illustrate the\ntime course of object perception and its dependence on attention.\nFinally, we discuss near-term challenges and future plans