Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Our poster will facilitate discussion of cognition driven primarily by physiology, emotions, sociality, and reason, i.e., therational and beyond rational. First, we take cognition to be the origin of all observable behavior. There is a growingliterature on emotional and social determinants of behavior. Physiological contributions to behavior (e.g., hunger, thirst,arousal/fatigue) are also being incorporated into recent cognitive models. We offer an approach to integrate these types ofcognition that can explain behavior over a much wider range of situations than current approaches. Their integration rangesfrom a recognition that one of the four is the overwhelming driver in extreme conditions, but otherwise their integrationis more nuanced with evidence of a general ordering. We will present and discuss approaches for their integration basedon their relative severity leading to a cognitive architecture that can represent the full spectrum of behavior, i.e., behavioroutside the laboratory.