Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition

Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition

In this paper, we propose that experimental protocols involving artificial agents, in particular the embodied humanoid robots, provide insightful information regarding social cognitive mechanisms in the human brain. Using artificial agents allows for manipulation and control of various parameters of behaviour, appearance and expressiveness in one of the interaction partners (the artificial agen...

Is social cognition embodied?

Theories of embodied cognition abound in the literature, but it is often unclear how to understand them. We offer several interpretations of embodiment, the most interesting being the thesis that mental representations in bodily formats (B-formats) have an important role in cognition. Potential B-formats include motoric, somatosensory, affective and interoceptive formats. The literature on mirr...

Artificial Intelligence : Simulated Embodied Agents

Probably everybody has heard of Artificial Intelligence (AI for short), but relatively few people have a really good idea of what the term really means. My purpose here is to introduce a few of the basic ideas behind AI, and to try and offer a means by which people can come to grips with the current state of the art in the field. Roughly speaking, Artificial Intelligence is the study of man-mad...

Embodied spatial cognition: Biological and artificial systems

In this paper we sketch out a computational theory of spatial cognition motivated by navigational behaviours, ecological requirements, and neural mechanisms as identified in animals and man. Spatial cognition is considered in the context of a cognitive agent built around the action-perception cycle. Besides sensors and effectors, the agent comprises multiple memory structures including a workin...

kant on the embodied cognition