Category formation in self-organizing embodied agents

In this paper, I describe the implications for a general theory of category formation
of a set of experiments in which embodied artificial agents are evolved for the ability to accomplish simple tasks. In particular, I will focus on how categories might
emerge from the dynamic interaction between an agent and its environment, and
on the relation between categories and behavior. Finally, I will introduce and discuss the notion of action-mediated categories, i.e., internal states that provide indirect and implicit information about the external environment and/or the agent/
environment relationship generated through the execution of a behavior.

Publication type: 
Contributo in volume
Author or Creator: 
Stefano Nolfi
Publisher: 
Elsevier, New York, USA
Source: 
Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, edited by Cohen Henri and Lefebvre Claire, pp. 953–975. New York: Elsevier, 2017
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Stefano Nolfi/titolo:Category formation in self-organizing embodied agents/titolo_volume:Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science/curatori_volume:Cohen Henri and Lefebvre Claire/editore: /anno:
Date: 
2017
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http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/415434
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-101107-2.00038-5
info:doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-101107-2.00038-5
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Eng
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