Robots as Powerful Allies for the Study of Embodied Cognition from the Bottom Up
The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition January 15, 2018 M. Hoffmann, R. Pfeifer 32 citations
A large body of compelling evidence has been accumulated demonstrating that embodiment—the agent’s physical setup, including its shape, materials, sensors, and actuators—is constitutive for any form of cognition, and, as a consequence, models of cognition need to be embodied. In contrast to methods from empirical sciences to study cognition, robots can be freely manipulated and virtually all...