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International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

SAB 2012: From Animals to Animats 12 pp 75–84Cite as

Modelling Interaction in Multi-modal Affordance Processing with Neural Dynamics

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Behavioral studies on the activation of affordances by understanding observation and action sentences on graspable objects show a direct relationship between the canonical orientation of graspable objects, their dimension and the kind of grip required by those objects to be grasped. The present work introduces the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory for modeling the results observed in the behavioral studies previously mentioned. The model was not only able to replicate qualitatively similar results regarding reaction times, but also the identification of same versus different object and the distinction between observable versus action sentences. The model shows the potential of dynamic field theory for the design and implementation of brain inspired cognitive systems.

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  1. Interaction Lab., University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28, Skövde, Sweden

    Boris Durán & Serge Thill

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  1. Informatics Research Centre, University of Skövde, Kanikegränd 3A, 54134, Skövde, Sweden

    Tom Ziemke

  2. Lund University, Lundagård, Kungshuset, 22222, Lund, Sweden

    Christian Balkenius

  3. Mærsk McKinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense, Denmark

    John Hallam

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Durán, B., Thill, S. (2012). Modelling Interaction in Multi-modal Affordance Processing with Neural Dynamics. In: Ziemke, T., Balkenius, C., Hallam, J. (eds) From Animals to Animats 12. SAB 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7426. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33093-3_8

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