Embodying Cognition: A Morphological Perspective

Casacuberta, David; Ayala, Saray; Vallverdú, Jordi

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“…In the philosophical literature, the most discussed case of morphological computations is the XOR-robot construed by Paul [19]. This robot consists of two perceptrons and one hiding wheel, whose description of action is consistent with the description of an XOR-gate [13,15,28,46]. Unfortunately, this example is rarely mentioned in more recent studies of morphological computations.…”

Section: Computations With Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They indicate that the main significance of the XOR-robot is that it can realize a linearly non-separable function such as XOR, despite the fact that its control structures (perceptrons) cannot compute any such functions, and it achieves this by virtue of its own physical, morphological features. Casacuberta and colleagues [46] develop this line of argument and propose more architecture similar to Paul's robot.…”

Section: Computations With Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bodily Processing: The Role of Morphological Computation

Nowakowski¹

2017

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The integration of embodied and computational approaches to cognition requires that non-neural body parts be described as parts of a computing system, which realizes cognitive processing. In this paper, based on research about morphological computations and the ecology of vision, I argue that nonneural body parts could be described as parts of a computational system, but they do not realize computation autonomously, only in connection with some kind of-even in the simplest form-central control system. Finally, I integrate the proposal defended in the paper with the contemporary mechanistic approach to wide computation.

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Section: Computations With Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Computations With Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bodily Processing: The Role of Morphological Computation

Nowakowski¹

2017

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“…Due to the great availability and diversity of possible robotic platforms, we know that the installed equipment will determine the selection of possible affordances parameterization, as well of the range of possible emotional responses. It is not so much different as when from a morphological perspective, a robot must copy with a limited range of degrees of freedom the cinematic of a human movement, although in both cases there is an intrinsic morphological computation (Casacuberta, Ayala, & Vallverdu´, 2010). Even in that case of DOF, there is the possibility of translating those data from some morphology to another one.…”

Section: Suggesting Emotional Affordances For Variable Robotic Architmentioning

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Emotional affordances for human–robot interaction

Vallverdú

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2016

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This paper provides a new concept for the improvement of human-robot interaction (HRI) models: 'emotional affordances'. Emotional affordances are all the mechanisms that have emotional content as a way to transmit and/or collect emotional meaning about any context; it can include bodily expressions, social norms, values-laden objects or extended space, among others. With this rich concept, we open the way to new ways to understand the multimodal and complex nature of emotional mechanisms. Based on the grounded emotional mechanisms of human cognition and behaviour (that is, based and result of the bodily structure and its coupled relationship with the natural and/or social environment), the purpose of this paper is focused on the definition of a framework for the design of a taxonomy of emotional affordances, useful for a modal and improved understanding of the domains of emotional interactions that can emerge between humans and robots. This process will make possible in next research steps to define processing modules as well as to elicit visual display outputs (expressing emotions). Consequently, with this project we provide robotic experts with a unified taxonomy of human emotional affordances, useful for the improvement of HRI projects.

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Embodying Cognition: A Morphological Perspective

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Bodily Processing: The Role of Morphological Computation

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