From Animals to Animats 12
12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2012, Odense, Denmark, August 27-30, 2012. Proceedings
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Swarms, Teams, or Choirs? Metaphors in Multi-UAV Systems Design
Future Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are projected to fly and operate in swarms. The swarm metaphor makes explicit and implicit map**s regarding system architecture and human interaction to aspects of natu...
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Social Robots in Care Homes for Older Adults
Evaluations of social robots for older adults in care home environments during the past 20 years have shown mostly positive results. However, many of these studies have been short-term and with few participant...
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Do Robot Pets Decrease Agitation in Dementia Patients?
Companion robots, and especially robotic pets, have been argued to have the potential for improving the well-being of elderly people with dementia. Previous research has mainly focused on short-term studies, c...
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Lay Causal Explanations of Human vs. Humanoid Behavior
The present study used a questionnaire-based method for investigating people’s interpretations of behavior exhibited by a person and a humanoid robot, respectively. Participants were given images and verbal de...
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Physical vs. Virtual Agent Embodiment and Effects on Social Interaction
Previous work indicates that physical robots elicit more favorable social responses than virtual agents. These effects have been attributed to the physical embodiment. However, a recent meta-analysis by Li [1] su...
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Robot-assisted therapy for autism spectrum disorders with (partially) autonomous control: Challenges and outlook
Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) is an emerging field that has already seen some success and is likely to develop in the future. One particular application area is within therapies for autism spectrum disorders, i...
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Modelling Walking Behaviors Based on CPGs: A Simplified Bio-inspired Architecture
In this article, we use a recurrent neural network including four-cell core architecture to model the walking gait and implement it with the simulated and physical NAO robot. Meanwhile, inspired by the biologi...
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Open AccessModeling the Development of Goal-Specificity in Mirror Neurons
Neurophysiological studies have shown that parietal mirror neurons encode not only actions but also the goal of these actions. Although some mirror neurons will fire whenever a certain action is perceived (goa...
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Modelling Coordination of Learning Systems: A Reservoir Systems Approach to Dopamine Modulated Pavlovian Conditioning
This paper presents a biologically constrained reward prediction model capable of learning cue-outcome associations involving temporally distant stimuli without using the commonly used temporal difference mode...
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Assessing Performance Competence in Training Games
In-process assessment of trainee learners in game-based simulators is a challenging activity. This typically involves human instructor time and cost, and does not scale to the one tutor per learner vision of c...
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Learning New Motion Primitives in the Mirror Neuron System: A Self-organising Computational Model
Computational models of the mirror (neuron) system are attractive in robotics as they may inspire novel approaches to implement e.g. action understanding. Here, we present a simple self-organising map which forms...
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On the Role of Emotion in Embodied Cognitive Architectures: From Organisms to Robots
The computational modeling of emotion has been an area of growing interest in cognitive robotics research in recent years, but also a source of contention regarding how to conceive of emotion and how to model ...
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A Neurocomputational Model of Anticipation and Sustained Inattentional Blindness in Hierarchies
Anticipation and prediction have been identified as key functions of many brain areas facilitating recognition, perception, and planning. In this chapter we present a hierarchical neurocomputational model in w...
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Neural Pathways of Embodied Simulation
Simulation theories have in recent years proposed that a cognitive agent’s "inner world" can at least partly be constituted by internal emulations or simulations of its sensorimotor interaction with the world,...
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The Cognitive Body: From Dynamic Modulation to Anticipation
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...
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Emotion in Cognitive Systems Architectures
Inspired by theories of situated and embodied cognition, much AI and cognitive systems research today, autonomous robotics in particular, is biologically inspired, although at very different levels of abstract...
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The Role of Internal States in the Emergence of Motivation and Preference: A Robotics Approach
In order to explain and model emotion we need to attend to the role internal states play in the generation of behavior. We argue that motivational and perceptual roles emerge from the dynamical interaction bet...
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An Analysis of Behavioral Attractor Dynamics
The interaction of brain, body and environment can result in complex behavior with rich dynamics even for relatively simple agents. Such dynamics are, however, often notoriously difficult to analyze. In this p...
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A Behavior-Based Model of the Hydra, Phylum Cnidaria
Behavior-based artificial systems, e.g. mobile robots, are frequently designed using (various degrees and levels of) biology as inspiration, but rarely modeled based on actual quantitative empirical data. This...
