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Título del libro: 2010 Ieee World Congress On Computational Intelligence, Wcci 2010 - 2010 Ieee Congress On Evolutionary Computation, Cec 2010
Título del capítulo: What is the relationship between behavioral robustness and distributed mechanisms of cognitive behavior?

Autores UNAM:
TOM FROESE;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2010
Palabras clave:

Cognitive behavior; Cognitive science; Different effects; Distributed cognition; Evolutionary robotics; Individual-based; Model agents; Object Tracking; Artificial intelligence; Mobile agents; Cognitive systems


Resumen:

There is a growing trend in the cognitive sciences to conceive of cognitive behavior as being distributed across brain, body and environment. However, the implications of such distribution for our understanding of biological robustness, which so far has been related to individual-based mechanisms alone, has rarely been discussed in the literature. We used the Evolutionary Robotics technique to examine the relationship between distributed behavioral mechanisms and behavioral robustness. Two kinds of model agents were evolved for a mobile object-tracking task and tested to see whether they can sustain their behavior despite sensorimotor perturbations. The results indicate that a highly distributed realization of behavior can be (i) detrimental, if it is mostly based on factors that are necessary for the behavior, or (ii) beneficial, if it is mostly based on factors that are sufficient for the behavior. Accordingly, we suggest that future discussions of distributed cognition should take into account that there are at least two different possible modes of realizing distributed behavior and that these have a qualitatively different effect on behavioral robustness. © 2010 IEEE.


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