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Abstraction Level Regulation of Cognitive Processing Through Emotion-Based Attention Mechanisms

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Attention in Cognitive Systems. Theories and Systems from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint (WAPCV 2007)

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In domains where time and resources are limited, the ability to balance resource consumption according to the problem characteristics and to the required solution quality is a crucial aspect of intelligent behavior. Growing evidence indicates that emotional phenomena may play an important role in that balance. To support this view we propose an agent model where emotion and reasoning are conceived as two symbiotically integrated aspects of cognitive processing. In this paper we concretize this view by extending emotion-based regulation of cognitive activity to enable an active control of the abstraction level at which cognitive processes operate through emotion-based attention mechanisms, thus allowing a dynamical adjustment of the resources used. Experimental results are presented to illustrate the proposed approach and to evaluate its effectiveness in a scenario where reasoning under time-limited conditions in a dynamic environment is required.

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  1. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1949-014 Lisboa, Portugal

    Luís Morgado

  2. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal

    Luís Morgado & Graça Gaspar

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  1. Joanneum Research, Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Computational Perception Group,, Institute of Digital Image Processing, Wastiangasse 6, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Lucas Paletta

  2. Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS), Autonomous Robots Department, Fraunhofer Institute, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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Morgado, L., Gaspar, G. (2007). Abstraction Level Regulation of Cognitive Processing Through Emotion-Based Attention Mechanisms. In: Paletta, L., Rome, E. (eds) Attention in Cognitive Systems. Theories and Systems from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint. WAPCV 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77343-6_4

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