Members of what you might call that "stubborn group" have started a yearly conference: Advances in Cognitive Systems. See the top of their FAQ: http://cogsys.org/faq
Nice group but they are definitely swimming against the currently standard approach.
That said, I think one really interest article here is: "Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Must Be an Extraordinary Science" by Nicholas L. Cassimatis
That said, I think one really interest article here is: "Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Must Be an Extraordinary Science" by Nicholas L. Cassimatis
Brings a lot of challenges into focus.
http://www.cogsys.org/pdf/paper-1-5.pdf
www.cogsys.org