Unified Cognitive Architecture
Brain-Inspired AI Research Framework
42.3
Perplexity
~60%
Memory Use
2% tokens
Interventions
6 Cognitive
Layers
A novel brain-inspired LLM framework (UCA) that unifies sensory, emotional, episodic, semantic, executive, and metacognitive processing within a single recurrent neural system with a Global Workspace.
The Challenge
Large Language Models lack integrated emotional reasoning, long-term episodic memory, temporal awareness, and genuine self-monitoring — fundamental gaps compared to human cognition.
The Solution
Designed UCA: six vertically integrated cognitive layers communicating through Recurrent Processing and a Global Workspace, enabling uncertainty estimation, hallucination self-detection, and context-dependent memory retrieval.
"UCA demonstrates it is possible to design a single neural architecture that integrates multiple cognitive functions inspired by the human brain without a prohibitive cost in language modeling performance."