A model for embodied cognition in autonomous agents

  • Authors:
  • Marco Vala;Tiago Ribeiro;Ana Paiva

  • Affiliations:
  • INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal;INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal;INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The traditional efforts to mimic basic human behavior in embodied agents use an approach that draws a clear line between the "mind" and the "body" of those agents. However, recent findings in neuroscience show that our bodies have an active role in what we call "intelligence". We studied several processes related with our body and propose a model to integrate them in generic embodied agents. The model was validated in a small case study with the NAO robot.