This paper outlines the design of a model amalgamating computational visual attention and emotion approaches for the purposes of driving expressive attentive and emotional behaviour in an embodied, situated real-time virtual infant. The themes of emotion and attention underlie all aspects of our model: from perception, to memory, internal state and behaviour expressivity. The model is focused o...

The present paper investigates how embodied and situated agents perform tasks that require skills of categorization. The agents are artificially created by an adaptation process. The task is to categorize different shapes of objects using sensory-motor and linguistic input. Results show that the autonomous agents are able to solve the categorization task by integrating the sensory-motor experie...

Citation: Matyja JR and Dolega K (2015) Commentary: The embodied brain: towards a radical embodied cognitive neuroscience. Recently, a new paradigm has emerged in mind and brain sciences. Radical embodied neuroscience (REN) aims to respond to the problems of mapping particular cognitive functions to narrowly defined brain regions. Accordingly, the proponents of this approach call for research t...