Where Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Meet: The Searchfor Grounded Architectures of Cognition

The collaboration between artificial intelligence and neuroscience can produce an understanding of the mechanisms in thebrain that generate human cognition. This article reviews multidisciplinary research lines that could achieve this understanding.Artificial intelligence has an important role to play in research, because artificial intelligence focuses on the mechanisms thatgenerate intelligence and cognition. Artificial intelligence can also benefit from studying the neural mechanisms of cognition,because this research can reveal important information about the nature of intelligence and cognition itself. I will illustrate thisaspect by discussing the grounded nature of human cognition. Human cognition is perhaps unique because it combines groundedrepresentations with computational productivity. I will illustrate that this combination requires specific neural architectures.Investigating and simulating these architectures can reveal how t hey are instantiated in the brain. The way these architecturesimplement cognitive processes could also provide answers to fundamental problems facing the study of cognition.