Rolf Pfeifer教授講演会"Cognition - the interaction of brain, body, and environment"
認知ロボティックス研究の気鋭の研究者をお迎えし、講演会を開催いたします。講演者のRolf Pfeifer教授は身体認知の視点からロボットの感覚運動連関に関する数多くの興味深い実験研究を展開してこられた方で、今回は、心理学や神経科学などを包括する次代の身体認知科学についてお話をしていただきます。参加費は無料です。お気軽にご来聴ください。
日時：7月24日（木） 16:30-18:00
場所：産業技術総合研究所 つくば中央第6事業所 6-11棟2F会議室
講演者: Rolf Pfeifer教授
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/staff/pfeifer/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Pfeifer
講演のタイトルと要旨
Cognition - the interaction of brain, body, and environment
Traditionally, in those disciplines studying cognition, i.e. robotics, artificial intelligence neuroscience, and psychology there has been a focus on the study of the control or the neural system itself. Recently there has been an increasing interest in the notion of embodiment in all these disciplines. In this talk, I explore the far-reaching and often surprising implications of this concept. While embodiment has often been used in its trivial meaning, i.e. "intelligence requires a body" there are deeper and more important consequences, i.e. that cognition is emergent from the interaction of brain, body, and environment, or more generally from the relation between physical and information (neural, control) processes. Often, morphology and materials can take over some of the functions normally attributed to control, a phenomenon called "morphological computation". It can be shown that through the embodied interaction with the environment, in particular through sensory-motor coordination, information structure is induced in the sensory data, thus facilitating categorization, perception and learning. A number of case studies are presented to illustrate the concepts introduced. If time permits, I will briefly look into the future and discuss modular robotics, self-organization, and self-assembly. I conclude with some speculations about potential lessons for robotics and cognitive science.
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産業技術総合研究所
人間福祉医工学研究部門
瀧田正寿，河原純一郎
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