World Models, Action Selection, Embodied Concept Formation, and Conditioning

Conditioning and Concept Formation in Embodied Agents

Learning algorithms typically model the acquisition of conceptual knowledge from some start state to some fixed learned end state. Natural associative learning demonstrates a more comprehensive range of processes which complement this static view of learning. An experimental regimen is presented for evaluating learning algorithms against this wider remit. This approach provides a general basis ...

A fundamental property of all-ornone models, binomial distribution of responses prior to conditioning, with application to concept formation in children.

DAC Distributed Adaptive Control : Theory and Practice

Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC) is a theory of the design principles underlying the Mind, Brain, Body Nexus (MBBN) that has been developed over the last 20 years. DAC assumes that the brain maintains stability between an embodied agent, its internal state and its environment through action. It postulates that in order to act, or know how, the brain has to answer 5 fundamental questions: who,...

Planiication versus Sensory-motor Conditioning: What Are the Issues ? Topic Areas { Action Selection { Internal Models and Representation { Motivation and Emotion { Navigation Planiication versus Sensory-motor Conditioning: What Are the Issues ?

This paper deals with the problem of linking a planiication level to a sensory-motor level. We discuss the interest of conditioning when the environment is not predictable enough for motivated planiication to work properly. We show how our probabilistic conditioning rule can be used to solve such a problem. We then present a neural implementation of the planiication which consists in linking si...

Distributed Adaptive Control: A theory of the Mind, Brain, Body Nexus

er a 201 ica.2012 hure@up Abstract Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC) is a theory of the design principles underlying the Mind, Brain, Body Nexus (MBBN) that has been developed over the last 20 years. DAC assumes that the brain maintains stability between an embodied agent and its environment through action. It postulates that in order to act, or know how, the brain has to answer four fundament...