Temporal Cognition: A Key Ingredient of Intelligent Systems

Maniadakis, Michail; Trahanias, Panos

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“…It is now known that apart from humans, many animals such as monkeys (Medina et al, 2005), rats (Guilhardi et al, 2005), and even zebra-fi sh (Sumbre et al, 2008), are capable of processing time. Therefore, it seems likely that time perception is a prerequisite for intelligent behavior and it is now high time to direct the attention of the robotics researchers on the investigation of artifi cial TC (Maniadakis et al 2009, Maniadakis & Trahanias, 2011, Maniadakis & Trahanias, 2012.…”

Section: A New Generation Of Robotic Systemsmentioning

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“…However, current research in robot perception and action has mainly concentrated on the spatial properties of the environment, largely disregarding the temporal information that accompanies real world phenomena (Maniadakis et al, 2009;Maniadakis & Trahanias, 2011). Such a cognitive approach isolates artifi cial agents from the past and the future of the world, resulting in systems that are "stuck in time" (borrowed from Roberts, 2002), a characterization that is often attributed to animals or autistic children.…”

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International studies in time perspective

Paixão¹,

Silva²,

Ortuño³

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Being the first, we hope it to be a milestone in highlighting the effort spent by different psychological approaches to understand the role played by time concepts in individual, group, and organizational development .The Conference was jointly organized by the "Instituto de Psicologia Cognitiva, Desenvolvimento Vocacional e Social" (Institute for Cognitive Psychology, Vocational and Social Development), a R & D unit based at the University of Coimbra, and the "Groupe de Recherche en Psycologie Sociale -GrePS", a R&D unit based at the University of Lyon, France . It was hosted by the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), the oldest University in Portugal (its foundation goes back to 1290), and an institution for which the notions of a rich past history and future strategic planning constitute the cornerstones of today's concerns . In a moment in time where the past, the present and the future are intensively invested with meaning and intention, researchers coming from all over the world reflected on how time perspectives impact on our lives, from our more proximal to our most distal socio-ecological contexts . It reunited more than 300 participants coming from 42 countries spread all over the 5 continents .During three intense but exciting days, senior and junior researchers exchanged and questioned emerging and well established concepts, reflecting upon diverse and joint projects, and prepared the path for future developments .We can undoubtedly say that the organization of this conference was a timely one, once there has lately been a renewed interest, as well as a series of academic initiatives, dedicated to the understanding of specific aspects of individual, group, and social behavior through the study of its core temporal dimensions .The study of subjective temporality or Time Perspective (TP) has been going on since K . Lewin defined it as "the totality of the individual's view of his psychological future and psychological past existing at a given time" (1951, p . 75), and it has encompassed several topics in various psychological domains . The chapters that are included in this book are a good illustration of the multifaceted focus on the research of subjective time in the psychological science . Taking this diversity into account, the editors opted to organize the contributions into six parts, corresponding to the following broad scientific domains:Part 1 -Time Perspective and human development: adaptive functioning and risk behaviors across the life-span . This part includes 8 chapters presenting the role played by TP, both in the normative developmental path from birth to death and in more deviant patterns of behavioral functioning in childhood, adolescence and adulthood . 0Part 2 -The relationships of personality and affective processes with Time Perspective, includes 4 chapters that address the relations among psychological personality traits and more dynamic affective processes with several subjective temporality dimensions .Part 3 -Time Perspective, health an...

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Section: A New Generation Of Robotic Systemsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Silva²,

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“…In humans, knowing the world occurs through spatio-temporal experiences and interpretations (Maniadakis and Trahanias, 2011). Space and time play a critical role in the organization of conscious experiences.…”

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Human Conscious Experience is Four-Dimensional and has a Neural Correlate Modeled by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

Sieb¹

2016

Neuroquantology

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In humans, knowing the world occurs through spatial-temporal experiences and interpretations. Conscious experience is the direct observation of conscious events. It makes up the content of consciousness. Conscious experience is organized in four dimensions. It is an orientation in space and time, an understanding of the position of the observer in space and time. A neural correlate for four-dimensional conscious experience has been found in the human brain which is modeled by Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Spacetime intervals are fundamentally involved in the organization of coherent conscious experiences. They account for why conscious experience appears to us the way it does. They also account for assessment of causality and past-future relationships, the integration of higher cognitive functions, and the implementation of goal-directed behaviors. Spacetime intervals in effect compose and direct our conscious life. The relativistic concept closes the explanatory gap and solves the hard problem of consciousness (how something subjective like conscious experience can arise in something physical like the brain). There is a place in physics for consciousness. We describe all physical phenomena through conscious experience, whether they be described at the quantum level or classical level. Since spacetime intervals direct the formation of all conscious experiences and all physical phenomena are described through conscious experience, the equation formulating spacetime intervals contains the information from which all observable phenomena may be deduced. It might therefore be considered expression of a theory of everything.

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“…Little has been studied on temporal cognition for robots (Maniadakis and Trahanias, 2011), although SLAM representations of episodic memories can be seen as a form of temporal cognition (Schulz et al, 2011b). Robots similar to those in the Talking Heads project (see Section 2.4.1) were able to ground event descriptions, and the representations include the order of events and the interval of events (Steels and Baillie, 2003).…”

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“…Some of these, such as event-based time are used as the only way of expressing time by some remote cultures (Sinha et al, 2011), and can be practically useful for specifying co-occurring events. Robots would benefit from more advanced temporal cognition in a variety of activities (Maniadakis and Trahanias, 2011). …”

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Evolving spatial and temporal lexicons across different cognitive architectures

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Communication between mobile robots requires a transfer of symbols, where each symbol signifies a meaning. However, in typical applications, meaning has been ascribed to the symbols by the engineers that have programmed the robots. This thesis explores an alternative: the use of algorithms and representations that allow mobile robots to evolve a shared set of symbols where the meanings of the symbols are derived from the robots' sensors and cognition.Mobile robots have two important properties that affect the learning of symbols, i) that they are capable of locomotion through space over time; and ii) that they come in many different configurations with different architectures. Previous work has demonstrated that mobile robots can learn shared lexicons to describe space through perceptual referents and referents grounded in cognitive maps. However, open questions remain as to how mobile robots can learn to communicate using temporal terms, and how learning lexicons is affected by different cognitive architectures.The major research question addressed in this thesis is how can mobile robots develop spatial and temporal lexicons across different cognitive architectures? Three facets of language learning are considered particularly important for robots with different cognitive architectures: i) the ability to ground terms in cognition;ii) the ability to ground identical terms in different sensors and cognition for each robot; and iii) the ability to handle referential uncertainty -the difficulty of linking words to meanings within ambiguous contexts.Pairs of mobile robots are used to develop lexicons for spatial and temporal terms and to study each of these abilities. The terms developed by the robots are tested by organizing spatial and temporal tasks and extended to additional terms through grounding transfer.In this thesis, language learning is studied within a framework defined by Peirce's semiotic triangle and building on previous Lingodroid studies. Conversations between robots are used to socially ground symbols within the robots' spatial and temporal cognition. Distributed lexicon tables are used to store links between words and meanings. As the lexicons evolve the words are analyzed for immediate usability, and the final lexicons are analyzed for coherence.Four studies to analyze different aspects of lexicon learning were completed. Study I addressed the aims of learning duration terms using mobile robots and using grounded spatial and temporal language together to perform joint tasks. Identical mobile robots were used to ground terms for time in durations using clocks (time since the last meeting). The robots were able to develop coherent lexicons, and successfully organize future meetings using learned terms.Study II addressed the aim of learning event-based temporal terms using mobile robots. Identical mobile robots were used to ground terms for time in sunlight levels (time of day). The robots required the ability to ground terms in features formed from a brightness level and its derivative. Aga...

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Temporal Cognition: A Key Ingredient of Intelligent Systems

Cited by 33 publications

References 53 publications

International studies in time perspective

International studies in time perspective

Human Conscious Experience is Four-Dimensional and has a Neural Correlate Modeled by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

Evolving spatial and temporal lexicons across different cognitive architectures

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