Learning a Vector-Symbolic Model for Socio-Cultural Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02807v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:03:46 GMT
• Title: Learning a Vector-Symbolic Model for Socio-Cultural Tasks
• Abstract summary: We propose a declarative memory system that represents semantic associations at multiple levels via a vector-symbolic autoencoder.<n>We use ACT-R cognitive models of a racially contextualized implicit association test (IAT) to test this new declarative memory system.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: How can we better represent the impact of sociocultural structures on decision making in computational cognitive models? Modeling this impact requires traversing multiple levels of semantic representation, however it is not immediately clear to a modeler which levels of representation are most salient to a given situation. Though large language models and cognitively grounded corpus models can represent broad semantic associations through co-occurences, the role of self representations in memory should be accounted for to determine how cultural associations shape decision making. We propose a declarative memory system to be used in the ACT-R cognitive architecture that represents semantic associations at multiple levels via a vector-symbolic autoencoder. We use a simple HRR operation to encode episodic memories differently from semantic memory vectors extracted from text to produce a final chunk activation for a memory request. We use ACT-R cognitive models of a racially contextualized implicit association test (IAT) to test this new declarative memory system.

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