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A cybernetical perspective on emotion-cognition interactions as self-directed adaptation in situated decision-makers.
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Cognitive Systems Research . Dec2018, Vol. 52, p400-428. 29p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Abstract Emotion-cognition interactions are often (Simon, 1967; Sloman, 2002) understood as adaptational mechanisms that help to cope bounded decision-makers with constraints and dangers forced upon by their environments. In this work, emotions are regarded as emergent properties of interconnected systems of functional routines – decision-making, memory access, etc. – and associated internal monitoring and modulation systems. Couplings between these mechanisms create internal bidirectional feedback loops that can sustain globally synchronized responses, which have been referred to as "appraisal-emotion"-amalgams (Lewis, 2005). Although emotions have been suggested as crucial components for enabling biological agents to cope with difficulties of decision-making in complex, partially unknown environments (Hanoch, 2002; Muramatsu & Hanoch, 2005; Sloman, 2011), research on artificial emotion models lacks common frameworks to explore design spaces for particular classes of emotionally-influenced systems (Hudlicka, 2008; Sloman, 2002), rendering it difficult to identify basic principles or architectural constraints (Hudlicka, 2008; Sloman, 1999, 2002). This article presents a systems-level framework for modeling emotion-cognition interaction in domain-independent decision-making systems based on Optimal Control Theory as a particular form of self-modulation driven by continual evaluation of the relationship between system and environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13890417
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cognitive Systems Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133069680
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.07.005