In two Artificial Life simulations we evolved artificial organisms possessing a visual and a motor system, and whose nervous system was simulated with a neural network. Each organism could see four objects, either upright or reversed, with a left or a right handle. In Task 1 they learned to reach the object handle independently of the handle‟s position. I, in Task 2 they learned to reach one of two buttons located below the handle either to decide either where the handle was (Simulation 1) or whether the object was upright or reversed (Simulation 2). Task 1 simulated real life experience, Task 2 replicated either a classic spatial compatibility task (Simulation 1) or an experiment by Tucker & Ellis (1998) (Simulation 2). In both simulations learning occurred earlier in the Compatible condition, when the button to reach and the handle were on the same side, than in the Incompatible condition.

Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study / Borghi, ANNA MARIA; Di Ferdinando, A.; Parisi, D.. - In: COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH. - ISSN 1389-0417. - 12:(2011), pp. 33-44. [10.1016/j.cogsys.2010.06.001]

Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study.

BORGHI, ANNA MARIA;
2011

Abstract

In two Artificial Life simulations we evolved artificial organisms possessing a visual and a motor system, and whose nervous system was simulated with a neural network. Each organism could see four objects, either upright or reversed, with a left or a right handle. In Task 1 they learned to reach the object handle independently of the handle‟s position. I, in Task 2 they learned to reach one of two buttons located below the handle either to decide either where the handle was (Simulation 1) or whether the object was upright or reversed (Simulation 2). Task 1 simulated real life experience, Task 2 replicated either a classic spatial compatibility task (Simulation 1) or an experiment by Tucker & Ellis (1998) (Simulation 2). In both simulations learning occurred earlier in the Compatible condition, when the button to reach and the handle were on the same side, than in the Incompatible condition.
2011
AFFORDANCES; CONNECTIONIST MODELS; SPATIAL COMPATIBILITY; NEURAL NETWORK; MOTOR SYSTEM
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Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study / Borghi, ANNA MARIA; Di Ferdinando, A.; Parisi, D.. - In: COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH. - ISSN 1389-0417. - 12:(2011), pp. 33-44. [10.1016/j.cogsys.2010.06.001]
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