Abstract
Emotions have long been seen as counteracting rational thought, but over the last decades, they have been viewed as adaptive processes to optimize human (but also animal) behaviour. In particular, positive affect appears to be a functional aspect of emotions closely related to that. We argue that positive affect as understood in Kuhl’s PSI model of the human cognitive architecture appears to have an interpretation in state-of-the-art hybrid robot control architectures, which might help tackle some open questions in the field.
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Quirin, M., Hertzberg, J., Kuhl, J. et al. Could positive affect help engineer robot control systems?. Cogn Process 12, 375–378 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-011-0401-4
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