Pass the car in front of you: a simulation of cognitive processes for understanding

Abstract

An attempt is made to simulate human mental processes of understanding in the problem of driving a car. The processes work on a network memory defined by four types of elements: Entity, Event, Attributé and Modality; and three types of relations: syntagmatic, paradigmatic, and metalingual. Subnetworks associated with the concept of modality are used effectively to make possible the representation of driving knowledge and processes, including pattern matching.