Christian Lebiere
Christian Lebiere is a Research Professor in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the CMU School of Computer Science where he studied connectionist models and was the co-developer of the Cascade-Correlation neural network deep learning algorithm. Since 1991, he has worked on the development of the ACT-R cognitive architecture and was co-author of the 1998 book The Atomic Components of Thought. Most recently he has been involved with the specification of the Common Model of Cognition, a community-wide effort to consolidate and formalize the scientific progress resulting from the 50-year research program in cognitive architectures. He is a founding member of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society, of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, and of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence. His main research interests are cognitive architectures and their applications to psychology, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, decision making, network science, cognitive robotics and human-machine teaming.
Sessions in which Christian Lebiere participates
Thursday 4 June, 2026
Theme : Cognitive architectures, reasoning and decision-making
- Introduction
- Cognitive models of information effects
- Knowledge and reasoning in Spaun
- Poster session
- Why we need Cognitive Architectures such as ACT-R for Cognitive Principles that enable dynamic & flexible Human-AI Interaction?
- Knowledge and reasoning across the bands of cognition
- Panel of the session
Human cognition involves processes and phenomena taking place at scales ranging across orders of magnitude in time and complexity that Allen Newell called the bands of cognition. In this talk, I present evidence that cognitive architectures provide a unifying framework for knowledge and reasoning across the bands of cognition. Going down to the neural band, integrating symbolic knowledge and neural-like mechanisms enables the development of neuro-symbolic archit...