I have been invited to give a talk on sensory substitution and our recent work on the Enactive Torch during the next Test_Lab on the 21st of February at V2_ in Rotterdam. I think that this will also be an excellent opportunity to introduce a broader audience to the framework of enactive cognitive science, as well as learn something about the latest developments in the arts!
Tucson 2008
January 17, 2008 at 4:56 pm (Presentations)
The proposal me and my colleague Adam Spiers have submitted to this year’s Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Arizona has been accepted as a talk. The Enactive Torch is going to the States!
The title of our contribution is:
“The Enactive Torch: Promoting first-person phenomenology in the study of enactive perception”
In order to read the extended abstract of our talk please click here.
Alergic seminar
January 17, 2008 at 4:48 pm (Presentations)
Modeling the dynamics of social cognition
Tom Froese
Alergic seminar
16 Jan. 2008
We used an evolutionary robotics methodology to generate simulated agents capable of reliably establishing and maintaining a coordination pattern under noisy conditions. The agents were only evolved for this ability and not for their capacity to detect social contingency. However, when they were made to interact with a previously recorded,successful behavioral sequence, the coordination pattern could not be maintained. An analysis of the underlying dynamics revealed (i) that stability of the coordination pattern requires mutuality of interaction, and (ii) that the interaction process is autonomous in the sense that it is not only constituted by but also constitutive of individual behavior. We hypothesize that in many cases an explanation of the breakdown of coordination does not require the postulation of an individual’s sensitivity to social contingency; it is likely a general property of a certain class of interactively coupled dynamical systems.
euCognition in Venice
January 17, 2008 at 4:41 pm (Presentations)
I presented some recent work on a simulation model of social cognition at euCognition’s 4th Six-Monthly Meeting entitled “An enactive approach to social cognition: Detection of social contingency or stability of interaction dynamics?”. The talk won the best student presentation prize and I presented it again during the main event!
Slides for the talk can be downloaded from the euCognition website here.
Many thanks to everyone at euCognition for making this such a vibrant and memorable event!
