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CREATURA COLLETTIVA. NOTE SUL CONCETTO DI COGNIZIONE DISTRIBUITA

2012

In this paper, I will examine some aspects of a research program called “Distributed Cognition”. My goal is twofold: a) to clarify the many meanings of the word “distribution” in the context of cognitive science; b) to analyze the relationship between “Distributed co- gnition”andthreedistincttopicsi.e:1)“ComputationalTheoryofMind”;2)“SocialCognition”;3)“PersonalMind”.Inthe conclusions,I will try to fomulate some questions that remain open in the debate on Distributed Cognition.

Longitudinal evidence for an emotion-action lag on desire: The role of emotional understanding

2021

Abstract Many previous studies have found that children understand much earlier what a character who has a false belief will do than what a character will feel. This gap between the understanding of action and emotion is known as the belief-emotion lag and to this day there is no convincing explanation as to why it happens. There are also no studies that have explored whether this same gap occurs in the understanding of desire. This longitudinal study had a twofold objective: to explore the existence of a lag between the prediction of action and emotion based on desire, and to search for the role that specific emotions could have in children’s answers. To this end, we administered the Test …

SEAI: Social Emotional Artificial Intelligence Based on Damasio’s Theory of Mind

2018

A socially intelligent robot must be capable to extract meaningful information in real-time from the social environment and react accordingly with coherent human-like behaviour. Moreover, it should be able to internalise this information, to reason on it at a higher abstract level, build its own opinions independently and then automatically bias the decision-making according to its unique experience. In the last decades, neuroscience research highlighted the link between the evolution of such complex behaviour and the evolution of a certain level of consciousness, which cannot leave out of a body that feels emotions as discriminants and prompters. In order to develop cognitive systems for s…

Meta-emotive intelligence, mindfulness and scholastic learning: A treatment study.

2012

A distributed architecture for autonomous navigation of robots

2002

The paper shows a distributed architecture for autonomous robot navigation. The architecture is based on three modules that are implemented on separate and interacting agents: the target recognizer, the obsta90cle evaluator and the planner. An adaptive genetic algorithm has been studied to identify mechanisms for reaching the target and for manipulating the 2-directions of the robot; the distributed architecture has been embedded in the DAISY (Distributed Architecture for Intelligent System). Experiments have been carried out using a LEGO intelligent brick.

Coming to Know Epicurus’ Truth: Distributed Cognition in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura

2020

Until recently, Descartes' idea that the human mind is, by definition, a non-extended entity (res cogitans, non extensa), enclosed in the body but constitutionally different from common bodily and external realities, found wide acceptance among students of cognitive sciences. But in the past few years the barriers between outer and inner worlds have begun to blur, projecting the process of cognition as a complex distributed phenomenon. According to the so-called distributed cognition thesis (and its more “radical” version, the extended mind hypothesis), “the thinker in this world is a very special medium that can provide coordination among many structured media – some internal, some externa…

Tietokoneavusteinen tunneanalyysi : uusi näkökulma merkitykselliseen dialogiin

2014

Tutkimuksemme tavoitteena oli tarkastella tietokoneavusteisen tunneanalyysin mahdollisuuksia ja rajoitteita osana “The Relational Mind in Events of Change in Multi-actor Therapeutic Dialog” -tutkimusprojektia. Tunneanalyysissa käytimme Facereader -kasvojentunnistusohjelmistoa, jolla analysoimme nelinkeskisestä terapeuttisesta tilanteesta suoraan kuvattua videomateriaalia. Aiemmin tietokoneavusteista tunneanalyysia on hyödynnetty tutkimusprojektissa vain terapian jälkihaastattelussa. Keskityimme analyysissa terapiaistunnon toiseen asiakkaaseen, sekä erityisesti tämän relationaalisiin hymyhetkiin suhteessa muihin terapiatilanteessa oleviin henkilöihin. Luokittelimme hymyhetket niiden ilmiasun…

Freud and the Philosophy: precedents of a fundamental ambivalence.

2021

La relación del psicoanálisis con la filosofía debe tener en cuenta el propio rechazo que Freud declaró contra todo intento de reducir la psicología al conocimiento de los fenómenos de la conciencia, que de modo temprano e insistente vinculó a la noción idealista de “cosmovisión” (Weltanschauung). Sin embargo, un seguimiento minucioso de las principales tendencias filosóficas que se daban en su contexto muestra el verdadero lugar de privilegio que corresponde al pensamiento filosófico de cara a la configuración identitaria del psicoanálisis como disciplina (y de su objeto de estudio: el inconsciente), con un marco epistemológico propio que bebe de la con-fluencia ideológica que el neopositi…

An open path for gender equality in research: When women scientists question the state of science and the institutions embrace the criticism

2016

The institutionalisation of equality policy in science, both at the national and the European scale, should facilitate progress towards equality in a space that wants to consider itself merit (and ability) driven. But discriminatory practices, both conscious and unconscious, direct or indirect, leave women out of many of the positions that they should occupy according to their accomplishments and capabilities. Many scientific institutions and their professionals still do not understand that if gender equality is only formally achieved and actual compliance is not monitored, they will lose part of the talent they are trying to cultivate.

OBSERVING HABITS OF MIND IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

2015

In this fast-moving 21st century, students need to learn to think before they act. Every school classshould be used as an opportunity to help students develop their habits of mind. A Habit of Mind is a disposition towards cleverly behaving when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known. When human experience dichotomies are confused by dilemmas, or come face to face with uncertainties, our most effective actions require drawing forth certain patterns of intellectual behavior. When we draw upon these intellectual resources, the results that are produced are more powerful, of higher quality and of greater significance than if we failed to employ those patterns o…