Clarion Project

The Clarion Project Home Page 

Introduction

Clarion is a project investigating fundamental structures and mechanisms of the human mind. In particular, it explores the interaction of implicit and explicit cognition, emphasizing bottom-up processes (i.e., from implicit to explicit processes). It also explores the interaction of motivation, cognition, and metacognition. The project aims for the synthesis of many significant intellectual ideas into a coherent (theoretical and computational) model. The goal is to form a generic cognitive architecture that captures a variety of psychological processes in a unified, coherent way and thus to provide unified explanations of a wide range of mental phenomena. 

The current objective of this project is two-fold: (a) developing artificial agents in various cognitive task domains and (b) understanding human mental processes in these same domains. The project is led by Prof. Ron Sun. The project has been supported by various funding agencies, including ONR and ARI. 

List of Participants (past and present)

• • Ron Sun 

  • Can Mekik

  • Sergei Bugrov

  • Adan Gomez

  • Shane Bretz

  • Sebastien Helie

  • Nick Wilson 

  • Michael Lynch 

  • Bob Mathews 

  • Sean Lane 

  • Xi Zhang 

  • Yizchak Naveh-Benjamin (Isaac Naveh)

  • Paul Slusarz

  • Todd Peterson 

  • Chad Sessions 

  • Chris Terry 

  • Pierson Fleischer 

  • Joe Allen

  • Eric Werben

  • Ryan Allison 

  • Dehu Qi 

  • Ed Merrill 

A Quick Sketch of Clarion

• • See here

A List of Publications on Clarion

• • See here

Clarion Tutorials and Slides 

• • Clarion tutorial video (a very short version 2021)

  • Clarion tutorial video (a short version 2020)

  • Clarion tutorial video (a longer version 2013)

• • Clarion tutorials slides (for Clarion 6.0) 

    • Part 1 

    • Part 2

    • Part 3 

    • Part 4 

    • Part 5

  • Clarion tutorials slides (for Clarion 5.0)  

• • A much simplified (non-technical) description of CLARION 5.0, written by a student, providing some general ideas concerning CLARION: A Simplified Introduction to CLARION 5.0,  or  A Simplified Introduction to CLARION 5.0 . Technical report, Department of  Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. 2004.

Software for Clarion

• • Ongoing experimental Python implementation of Clarion: PyClarion, PyClarion dev

  • The separate Clarion software Website

    • Clarion 6.1.1 (in C#)

    • Clarion 6.1.0 (in C#) (the 3rd beta release)

    • Clarion 6.0 (in Java): the beta version and a patch

  • Clarion 5.0 (in Java)

    • Clarion 5.0 (Mac version, source files only)

    • Clarion 5.0 (Window version, source files only)

  • Clarion 4.0 (in Java)

  • planning 

  • partitioning 

  • segmentation 

Related Sites

• • Resources related to Cognitive Architectures 

Additional_Information

Ron Sun's home page