The Cognitive Body: From Dynamic Modulation to Anticipation

Authors:
Alberto Montebelli;Robert Lowe;Tom Ziemke
Affiliations:
School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden SE-541 28;School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden SE-541 28;School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden SE-541 28
Venue:
Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

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 self-organized, 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.