# Cognitive Architecture
**Domain:** Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence / Systems Theory
**Doc Type:** Technical Concept Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[wiki/Computational Architecture|Computational Architecture]], [[wiki/Recursive Self-Model|Recursive Self-Model]], [[wiki/Joscha Bach|Joscha Bach]]
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## Definition
A **cognitive architecture** is an explicit organization of the processes and representations proposed to support perception, memory, learning, motivation, action selection, reasoning, and self-modeling within an intelligent system.
## Ontology Context
This node owns system-level theories of how cognitive functions fit together. [[wiki/Computational Architecture|Computational Architecture]] owns the more general arrangement of computational components; [[wiki/Recursive Self-Model|Recursive Self-Model]] owns the specific capacity of a system to represent and update a model of itself.
## See Also
[[wiki/Computational Architecture|Computational Architecture]] · [[wiki/Recursive Self-Model|Recursive Self-Model]] · [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] · [[wiki/Joscha Bach|Joscha Bach]] · [[wiki/Society of Mind|Society of Mind]]