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Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling

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    Giovanni Pezzulo, National Research Council, PisaLawrence Barsalou, Emory UniversityAngelo Cangelosi, University of PlymouthMartin Fischer, University of PotsdamKen McRae, University of Western OntarioMichael J. Spivey, University of California
Language
  • English
Date
  • 2013-01-22
Publisher
  • Frontiers Research Foundation
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  • © 2013 Pezzulo, Barsalou, Cangelosi, Fischer, McRae and Spivey.
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ISSN
  • 1664-1078
Volume
  • 3
Start Page
  • 1
End Page
  • 11
Grant/Funding Information
  • The effort of Giovanni Pezzulo was supported by the European Union FP7 project HUMANOBS.
  • The effort of Angelo Cangelosi was supported by the European Union FP7 projects ITALK and ROBOTDOC.
  • Angelo Cangelosi and Martin H. Fischer also acknowledge the support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, through the project VALUE
Abstract
  • Grounded theories assume that there is no central module for cognition. According to this view, all cognitive phenomena, including those considered the province of amodal cognition such as reasoning, numeric, and language processing, are ultimately grounded in (and emerge from) a variety of bodily, affective, perceptual, and motor processes. The development and expression of cognition is constrained by the embodiment of cognitive agents and various contextual factors (physical and social) in which they are immersed. The grounded framework has received numerous empirical confirmations. Still, there are very few explicit computational models that implement grounding in sensory, motor and affective processes as intrinsic to cognition, and demonstrate that grounded theories can mechanistically implement higher cognitive abilities. We propose a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling toward a novel multidisciplinary enterprise: Computational Grounded Cognition. We clarify the defining features of this novel approach and emphasize the importance of using the methodology of Cognitive Robotics, which permits simultaneous consideration of multiple aspects of grounding, embodiment, and situatedness, showing how they constrain the development and expression of cognition.
Author Notes
  • Correspondence: Giovanni Pezzulo, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via S. Martino della Battaglia, 00185, Roma, Italy. E-mail: giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.it
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  • Psychology, General

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