Exploring the Complex Adaptive Nature of Behaviour and Cognition Through Evolutionary Robotics Experiments

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titleExploring the Complex Adaptive Nature of Behaviour and Cognition Through Evolutionary Robotics Experiments
start_date2014/05/21
schedule14h
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summaryIn this talk I will claim that behavioural and cognitive capacities of embodied agents can be properly characterized as dynamical processes, originating from the agents/environmental interactions, displaying a multi-level and multi-scale organization. More specifically I will review a series of evolutionary robotics experiments that illustrate how the multi-level nature of these systems can enable: generalization processes that operate at the level of entire behaviours, the progressive expansion of the robots behavioural skills, and behavioural compositionality. Finally, I will discuss how affordance perception and selective attention might constitute important prerequisites for the development of multiple-behavioural capacities.
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