The Cognitive Body: from Dynamic Modulation to Anticipation

The Cognitive Body : from Dynamic Modulation to Anticipation

Montebelli, Alberto (author): Cognition and Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

Lowe, Robert (author): Cognition & Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden,

Ziemke, Tom (author): Cognition & Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden,

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Springer, 2003
2003
English.
In: Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems. - : Springer. - 9783540404293 ; , s. 132-151

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Abstract Subject headings

Starting from the situated and embodied perspective on the study of cognition as a source of inspiration, this paper programmatically outlines a path towards an experimental exploration of the role of the body in a minimal anticipatory cognitive architecture. Cognition is here conceived and synthetically analyzed as a broadly extended and distributed dynamic process emerging from the interplay between a body, a nervous system and their environment. Firstly, we show how a non-neural internal state, crucially characterized by slowly changing dynamics, can modulate the activity of a simple neurocontroller. The result, emergent from the use of a standard evolutionary robotic simulation, is a selforganized, dynamic action selection mechanism, effectively operating in a context dependent way. Secondly, we show how these characteristics can be exploited by a novel minimalist anticipatory cognitive architecture. Rather than a direct causal connection between the anticipation process and the selection of the appropriate behavior, it implements a model for dynamic anticipation that operates via bodily mediation (bodily-anticipation hypothesis). This allows the system to swiftly scale up to more complex tasks never experienced before, achieving flexible and robust behavior with minimal adaptive cost.

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