Representational Issues in the Debate on the Standard Model of the Mind
  In this paper we discuss some of the issues concerning the Memory and Content
aspects in the recent debate on the identification of a Standard Model of the
Mind (Laird, Lebiere, and Rosenbloom in press). In particular, we focus on the
representational models concerning the Declarative Memories of current
Cognitive Architectures (CAs). In doing so we outline some of the main problems
affecting the current CAs and suggest that the Conceptual Spaces, a
representational framework developed by Gardenfors, is worth-considering to
address such problems. Finally, we briefly analyze the alternative
representational assumptions employed in the three CAs constituting the current
baseline for the Standard Model (i.e. SOAR, ACT-R and Sigma). In doing so, we
point out the respective differences and discuss their implications in the
light of the analyzed problems.
