Metric Adaptation and Representation Upgrade in an Emotion-Based Agent Model

Ventura, Rodrigo; Pinto-Ferreira, Carlos

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_72

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“…These layers correspond to a (1) perceptual layer, providing a reactive, quick response to stimuli, and thus giving a primordial meaning to stimuli eliciting a response, and a (2) cognitive layer, representing stimuli with complex, high-dimensionality representations. This architecture was further developed and formalized in [Ventura and Pinto-Ferreira, 2007;.…”

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Emotions and Empathy: A Bridge Between Nature and Society?

Ventura

2010

Int. J. Mach. Conscious.

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For over a decade neuroscience has uncovered that appropriate decision-making in daily life decisions results from a strong interplay between cognition and covert biases produced by emotional processes. This interplay is particularly important in social contexts: lesions in the pathways supporting these processes provoke serious impairments on social behavior. One important mechanism in social contexts is empathy, fundamental for appropriate social behavior. This paper presents arguments supporting this connection between cognition and emotion, in individual as well as in social contexts. The central claim of this paper is that biologically inspired cognitive architectures ought to include these mechanisms. A taxonomy of computational models addressing emotions is presented, together with a brief survey of the research published in this area. The Prisoner Dilemma game is used as a case study exposing the trade-o® between individual rationality and cooperative behavior. Experiments using a simple implementation of empathy and emotion expression, employing an Iterated Prisoner Dilemma setup, illustrate the emergence of a cooperative behavior mutually bene¯cial for both players.

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Section: Emotion-based Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%