The causal mind: An affordance-based account of causal engagement
Causal cognition is a core aspect of how we deal with the world; however, existing psychological theories tend not to target intuitive causal engagement that is done in daily life. To fill this gap, we propose an Ecological-Enactive (E-E) affordance-...
What affords being creative? Opportunities for novelty in light of perception, embodied activity, and imaginative skill
An affordance perspective highlights how resourceful the ecology is for creative actions of all sorts; it captures how creativity is grounded in materiality. In contrast to “canonical affordances” (i.e., “ready-to-hand,” mundane instances), creative ...
Correlates of recreational risk-taking behavior: A comparison between the Tower Building Task and two self-report measures
Risk-taking is a ubiquitous behavior and its assessment is a central aspect of understanding human decision-making. Self-report questionnaires can be used to probe risk-taking propensities in a domain-specific manner. In contrast, most behavioral tools ...
Combining imitation and deep reinforcement learning to human-level performance on a virtual foraging task
- Vittorio Giammarino,
- Matthew F Dunne,
- Kylie N Moore,
- Michael E Hasselmo,
- Chantal E Stern,
- Ioannis Ch Paschalidis
We develop a framework to learn bio-inspired foraging policies using human data. We conduct an experiment where humans are virtually immersed in an open field foraging environment and are trained to collect the highest amount of rewards. A Markov ...
Reinforcement learning-based aggregation for robot swarms
- Arash Sadeghi Amjadi,
- Cem Bilaloğlu,
- Ali Emre Turgut,
- Seongin Na,
- Erol Şahin,
- Tomáš Krajník,
- Farshad Arvin
Aggregation, the gathering of individuals into a single group as observed in animals such as birds, bees, and amoeba, is known to provide protection against predators or resistance to adverse environmental conditions for the whole. Cue-based aggregation, ...
Cobots, Complexities, and Campfire: Report on the 4th HRI Summer School
The 4th Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction in Chȩciny, Poland, sponsored by IEEE RAS and the EU’s Horizon 2020, assembled nearly 100 professionals and students from various fields to explore human–robot communication. This year’s edition ...
