A Proposal for Extending the Common Model of Cognition to Emotion

Cognition and emotion must be partnered in any complete model of a humanlike mind. This article proposes an extension to the Common Model of Cognition – a developing consensus concerning what is required in such a mind – for emotion that includes a linked pair of modules for emotion and metacognitive assessment, plus pervasive connections between these two new modules and the Common Model’s existing modules and links.