The purpose of the work in the ALife Somatic Computation research line is to addresse a virtual environments with agents whose decisions are based on a form of “somatic computation” (soma - body) in which basic emotional responses, taken in parallelism to actual living organisms, are introduced as a way to provide the agents with greater reflexive abilities. The work provides a contribution to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Life (ALife) in connection to a neurobiology-based cognitive framework for artificial systems and virtual environments’ simulations.
Articles:
- Gonçalves, C.P. (2014) "Emotional Responses in Artificial Agent-Based Systems: Reflexivity and Adaptation in Artificial Life". arXiv:1401.2121 [cs.AI] (http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1401.2121),
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