From Embodied Cognitive Science To Synthetic Psychology

  • Authors:

  • Michael R. W. Dawson

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICCI '02 Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

One new tradition that has emerged from early research on autonomous robots is embodiedcognitive science. This paper describes the relationship between embodied cognitive scienceand a related tradition, synthetic psychology. It is argued that while both are synthetic, embodied cognitive science is anti-representational while synthetic psychology still appeals torepresentations. It is further argued that modern connectionism offers a medium for conductingsynthetic psychology, provided that researchers analyze the internal representations that theirnetworks develop. Some case studies that illustrate this approach are presented in brief.