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1325Towards a Vygotskyan Cognitive Robotics: The Role of Language as a Cognitive ToolNew Ideas in Psychology 29 298-311. 2011.Cognitive Robotics can be defined as the study of cognitive phenomena by their modeling in physical artifacts such as robots. This is a very lively and fascinating field which has already given fundamental contributions to our understanding of natural cognition. Nonetheless, robotics has to date addressed mainly very basic, lowlevel cognitive phenomena like sensorymotor coordination, perception, and navigation, and it is not clear how the current approach might scale up to explain highlevel h…Read more
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387Language as a cognitive toolMinds and Machines 19 (4): 517-528. 2009.The standard view of classical cognitive science stated that cognition consists in the manipulation of language-like structures according to formal rules. Since cognition is ‘linguistic’ in itself, according to this view language is just a complex communication system and does not influence cognitive processes in any substantial way. This view has been criticized from several perspectives and a new framework (Embodied Cognition) has emerged that considers cognitive processes as non-symbolic and …Read more
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122Representations in Dynamical Embodied Agents: Re-Analyzing a Minimally Cognitive Model AgentCognitive Science 36 (5): 870-895. 2012.Understanding the role of ‘‘representations’’ in cognitive science is a fundamental problem facing the emerging framework of embodied, situated, dynamical cognition. To make progress, I follow the approach proposed by an influential representational skeptic, Randall Beer: building artificial agents capable of minimally cognitive behaviors and assessing whether their internal states can be considered to involve representations. Hence, I operationalize the concept of representing as ‘‘standing in,…Read more
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92A naturalistic perspective on intentionality. Interview with Daniel DennettMind and Society 3 (6): 1-12. 2002.In this interview Dennett is asked to clarify some of the most fundamental and controversial aspects of his theory of Intentionality, and of his philosophy in general, including his mild ontological realism, the relationships between ontology and science, naturalized epistemology, normativity, rationality, and the relation between science and philosophy. At the end of the interview, a critical bibliography points to the most important publications of Dennett up to 2000.
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43Keep focussing: striatal dopamine multiple functions resolved in a single mechanism tested in a simulated humanoid robotFrontiers in Psychology 5. 2014.The effects of striatal dopamine (DA) on behavior have been widely investigated over the past decades, with “phasic” burst firings considered as the key expression of a reward prediction error responsible for reinforcement learning. Less well studied is “tonic” DA, where putative functions include the idea that it is a regulator of vigor, incentive salience, disposition to exert an effort and a modulator of approach strategies. We present a model combining tonic and phasic DA to show how differe…Read more
Marco Mirolli
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
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Consiglio Nazionale Delle RicercheIstituto Di Scienze E Tecnologie Della CognizioneResearcher
Università Di Siena
Alumnus, 2006
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Epistemology |