Cognitive Architectures: Innate or Learned?

Cognitive architectures are generally considered to be theo- ries of the innate capabilities of the (human) cognitive system. Any knowledge that is not innate is encoded in the architec- tures memory systems, either by the modeler or learned by the architecture itself. However, in human intelligent behav- ior few things are innate. An alternative is to acknowledge that learning occurs at different levels of abstraction. A stan- dard model of the mind should therefore span multiple levels of abstraction, encouraging research efforts to establish learn- ing mechanism that connect them.