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Cognitive Architectures

  • Provides an integrated framework for natural and artificial cognition
  • Identifies the fundamental role played by the cognitive architecture in the dialectics agent/environment
  • Goes a step further from bio-inspired design methodology to semiotically determined design

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Cognitive Architectures: The Dialectics of Agent/Environment

    • Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira
    Pages 1-12
  3. Complementarity of Seeing and Appearing

    • Jindřich Brejcha, Pavel Pecháček, Karel Kleisner
    Pages 13-30
  4. The Architect’s Dilemmas

    • David Vernon
    Pages 59-70
  5. Human Cognition-Inspired Robotic Grasping

    • Marco Monforte, Fanny Ficuciello, Bruno Siciliano
    Pages 71-84
  6. The Synthetic Psychology of the Self

    • Tony J. Prescott, Daniel Camilleri
    Pages 85-104
  7. An Overview of the Distributed Integrated Cognition Affect and Reflection DIARC Architecture

    • Matthias Scheutz, Thomas Williams, Evan Krause, Bradley Oosterveld, Vasanth Sarathy, Tyler Frasca
    Pages 165-193

About this book

This book provides an integrated framework for natural and artificial cognition by highlighting the fundamental role played by the cognitive architecture in the dialectics with the surrounding environment and consequently in the definition of a particular meaningful world.

This book is also about embodied and non-embodied artificial systems, cognitive architectures that are human constructs, meant to be able to populate the human world, capable of identifying different life contexts and replicating human patterns of behavior capable of acting according to human values and conventions, systems that perform tasks in a human-like way.

By identifying the essential phenomena at the core of all forms of cognition, the book addresses the topic of design of artificial cognitive architectures in the domains of robotics and artificial life. Moving from mere bio-inspired design methodology it aims to open a pathway to semiotically determined design.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira

  • Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Silva Sequeira, Rodrigo Ventura

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eBook USD 129.00
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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