Emotional Computer

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shikha Jain ◽  
Krishna Asawa
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Emotion Model ◽  
Emotion Modeling ◽  
Rational Reasoning

Extensive studies established the existence of a close interaction between emotion and cognition with remarkable influence of the emotion on all sorts of cognitive process. Consequently, technologies that emulate human intelligent behavior cannot be thought completely intelligent without incorporating interference of emotional component in the rational reasoning processes. Recently, several researchers have been started working in the field of emotion modeling to cater the need of interactive computer applications that demand human-like interaction with the computer. However, due to the absence of structured guidelines, the most challenging task for the researcher is to understand and select the most appropriate definitions, theories and processes governing the human psychology to design the intended model. The objective of the present article is to review the background scenario and necessary studies for designing emotion model for a computer machine so that it could generate appropriate synthetic emotions while interacting with the external environmental factors.

Evaluative devices as a narrative tool for enacting relational complexity

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Jović
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Cognitive Tool ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Affective Expressions ◽  
Relational Complexity

In the present article, I explore how urban youth use narrating for self-presentation as they relate to diverse contexts and audiences. Diverse narrative genres employed in this study were used as a socio-cognitive tool for looking into enactments of relational complexity — a skill of adjusting one’s communications to audiences and contexts. Thirteen adolescents were asked to narrate about the most important aspects of their lives, using two different genres and addressing two different audiences. I explored youth’s systematically varied use of psychological state expressions, as they navigated through different genres and audiences. As adolescents narrate either about the negative experiences or for the imagined peer audience, their narrating involves more cognitive than affective expressions. This indicates that systematic changes take place in narrating as a socio-cognitive process when there is a need for more intense work around issues, either to figure out what is happening, or to try to present oneself in the best light to salient others.

scholarly journals Macphail (1987) Revisited: Pigeons Have Much Cognitive Behavior in Common With Humans

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Zentall
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Sensory Input ◽  
Motor Output ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
Intelligent Behavior

The hypothesis proposed by Macphail (1987) is that differences in intelligent behavior thought to distinguish different species were likely attributed to differences in the context of the tasks being used. Once one corrects for differences in sensory input, motor output, and incentive, it is likely that all vertebrate animals have comparable intellectual abilities. In the present article I suggest a number of tests of this hypothesis with pigeons. In each case, the evidence suggests that either there is evidence for the cognitive behavior, or the pigeons suffer from biases similar to those of humans. Thus, Macphail’s hypothesis offers a challenge to researchers to find the appropriate conditions to bring out in the animal the cognitive ability being tested.

scholarly journals Has evolution ‘prepared’ us to deal with death? Paleoanthropological aspects of the enigma of Homo naledi’s disposal of their dead

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornel W. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Cooperative Behaviour ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
Causal Thinking ◽  
Symbol Formation ◽  
Almost All

The Homo naledi discovery introduced questions that had not been previously posed regarding fossil finds. This is because, apart from their fascinating physiology, they seemingly deliberately disposed of their dead in a ritualised way. Although this theory may still be disproved in future, the present article provisionally accepts it. This evokes religious questions because it suggests the possibility of causal thinking, wilful and cooperative behaviour, and the possibility that this behaviour entails traces of proto-religious ideas. This poses the challenge to develop a hominin hermeneutics that endeavours to reconstruct the possible motivation behind this action. The relatively larger brain with its enlarged Broca’s area suggests the possibility of a sophisticated communication system and an enhanced way of dealing with emotion. We know that almost all life forms have some form of awareness and that more sophisticated degrees of consciousness may be present in the higher primates. Various ‘clues’ are investigated to try and understand the H. naledi phenomenon: lessons from chimpanzee studies, the implications of tool making for hominin development, the possibility of a proto-language and the role symbol formation may have played. The H. naledi case also indicates on a theological level that religion is natural. Some attention is given to this thesis. Biological and environmental factors come into play to illuminate biological factors like emotion and higher cognition without which religion would not be possible. Sophisticated cognition is coloured by affect (basic emotions are typical of all mammals) and this makes some form of reflection on the fate of loved ones who have died a strong possibility.

scholarly journals Existential and psychological problems connected with Threat Predicting Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Piotr Mamcarz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Human Integrity

Abstract The aim of the article is to present a very important phenomenon affecting human integrity and homeostasis that is Threat Prediction Process. This process can be defined as “experiencing apprehension concerning results of potential/ actual dangers,” (Mamcarz, 2015) oscillating in terminological area of anxiety, fear, stress, restlessness. Moreover, it highlights a cognitive process distinctive for listed phenomenon’s. The process accompanied with technological and organization changes increases number of health problems affecting many populations. Hard work conditions; changing life style; or many social and political threats have influence on people’s quality of life that are even greater and more dangerous than physical and psychological factors, which, in turn, have much more consequences for human normal functioning. The present article is based on chosen case studies of a qualitative analysis of threat prediction process

The Elusive Extended Mind

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Fred Adams
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
Andy Clark ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
The Mind

For nearly twenty years Andy Clark has been the chief architect and proponent of the thesis of extended mind. But it is only the cognitive processes in the mind that extend, according to Clark (not consciousness itself). However, when it comes to saying what a cognitive process is such that one can determine whether it does or does not extend, Clark is less forthcoming. He has offered a Dennettian “cognition is as cognition does.” He has offered that cognition is “what supports intelligent behavior.” In some cases he comes very close to asserting that we don’t really need to say what cognition is. This chapter explains why this all matters and why the failure to be more forthcoming makes the extended mind an elusive entity.

Emotional Model for Robotic System Using a Self-Organizing Map Combined with Markovian Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 563-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisanu Jitviriya ◽  
◽  
Masato Koike ◽  
Eiji Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Expression System ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Emotional Model ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Emotion Model ◽  
Self Organizing

<div class=""abs_img""> <img src=""[disp_template_path]/JRM/abst-image/00270005/13.jpg"" width=""300"" /> Behavioral/emotional expression system</div> In our research, we have focused on investigating the application of brain-inspired technology by developing a robot with consciousness resembling that of a human being. The goal was to enhance intelligent behavior/emotion, and to facilitate communication between human beings and robots. We sought to increase the robot’s behavioral/emotional intelligence capabilities so that it could distinguish, adapt and react to changes in the environment. In this paper, we present a behavioral/emotional expression system designed to work automatically by two processes. The first is a classification of behavior and emotions by determining the winner node based on Self-Organizing Map (SOM) learning. For the second, we propose a stochastic emotion model based on Markov theory in which the probabilities of emotional state transition are updated with affective factors. Finally, we verified this model with a conscious behavior robot (Conbe-I), and confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed system with the experimental results in a realistic environment. </span>

scholarly journals Psychological Spacetime

SAGE Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401667451
Author(s):  
Lucian Gideon Conway ◽  
Meredith A. Repke ◽  
Shannon C. Houck
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Time Perception ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Existing Data

It has been an accepted scientific fact in physics for almost 100 years that time speeds up and slows down for an observer based on factors—such as motion and gravity—that affect space. Yet this fact, drawn from the theory of relativity, has not been widely integrated into the study of the psychology of time. The present article helps to fill in this gap between physics and psychology by reviewing evidence concerning what a psychological spacetime processor—one that accounted for the theory of relativity’s empirically validated predictions of the compensatory relationship between time and space—would look like. This model of the spacetime processor suggests that humans should have a psychological mechanism for slowing time down as motion speeds up, a prediction that already has widespread research support. We also discuss several novel hypotheses directly suggested by the spacetime model and a set of related speculations that emerge when considering spacetime (some of which have already received empirical support). Finally, we compare and contrast three very different potential reasons why we might have developed a spacetime processor in the first place. We conclude that the spacetime model shows promise for organizing existing data on time perception and generating novel hypotheses for researchers to pursue. Considering how humans might process spacetime helps reduce the existing gap between our understanding of physics and our understanding of human psychology.

THOMAS D'AQUIN LECTEUR CRITIQUE DU GRAND COMMENTAIRE D'AVERROÈS À PHYS. I, 1

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-223
Author(s):  
CRISTINA CERAMI
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Ancient Greek

AbstractThe present article aims to provide a reconstruction of the interpretation offered by Thomas Aquinas of the cognitive process described at the beginning of Aristotle's Physics and of his criticism of Averroes' interpretation. It expounds to this end the exegesis of ancient Greek commentators who opened the debate on this question; then, it puts forward a reconstruction of Aquinas' doctrine by means of other texts of his corpus, as well as an explanation of his criticism of Averroes' exegesis; it finally reconstructs Averroes' interpretation worked out in his Great Commentary to Phys. I, 1, in order to show that Aquinas' disapproval is partly due to an incorrect interpretation of Averroes' divisio textus of Phys. I, 1. It suggests as well that, concerning some fundamental points, Aquinas' exegesis doesn't diverge from the interpretation proposed by Averroes.

scholarly journals Emotion Modeling and Interaction of NPCS in Virtual Simulation and Games

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Li ◽  
James Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Virtual Simulation ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Virtual Simulations ◽  
Emotion Model ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Natural Emotion ◽  
Emotion Modeling

Virtual simulations and games utilizing NPCs, or computer controlled agents, are more predominant now than ever. Many of these simulations suffer from a lack of effective, stimulating, and natural emotion-based behaviours in the interaction among the NPCs, as well as with the human players. This paper presents an easy-to-use, portable, diverging, and adaptive emotion model based on psychological and sociological research, for simulation and game designers to utilize easily in their virtual world. The proposed emotion model allows the player to better relate, understand and believe in characters in the virtual environment

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