000006274 001__ 6274 000006274 005__ 20170831220335.0 000006274 037__ $$aTAZ-TFM-2011-040 000006274 041__ $$aeng 000006274 1001_ $$aAguilera Lizarraga, Miguel 000006274 24500 $$aCoordination dynamics in the sensorimotor loop 000006274 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza$$c2011 000006274 506__ $$aby-nc-sa$$bCreative Commons$$c3.0$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 000006274 520__ $$aThe last two decades have witnessed radical changes of perspective about the nature of intelligence and cognition, leaving behind some of the assumptions of computational functionalism. From the myriad of approaches seeking to substitute the old rule-based symbolic perception of mind, we are especially interested in two of them. The first is Embodied and Situated Cognition, where the advances in modeling complex adaptive systems through computer simulations have reconfigured the way in which mechanistic, embodied and interactive explanations can conceptualize the mind. We are particularly interested in the concept of sensorimotor loop, which brings a new perspective about what is needed for a meaningful interaction with the environment, emphasizing the role of the coordination of effector and sensor activities while performing a concrete task. The second one is the framework of Coordination Dynamics, which has been developed as a result of the increasing focus of neuroscience on self-organized oscillatory brain dynamics. It provides formal tools to study the mechanisms through which complex biological systems stabilize coordination states under conditions in which they would otherwise become unstable. We will merge both approaches and define coordination in the sensorimotor loop as the main phenomena behind the emergence of cognitive behavior. At the same time, we will provide methodological tools and concepts to address this hypothesis. Finally, we will present two case studies based on the proposed approach: 1. We will study the phenomenon known as “intermittent behavior”, which is observed in organisms at different levels (from microorganisms to higher animals). We will propose a model that understands intermittent behavior as a general strategy of biologica organization when an organism has to adapt to complex changing environments, and would allow to establish effective sensorimotor loops even in situations of instable engagement with the world. 2. We will perform a simulation of a phonotaxis task performed by an agent with an oscillator network as neural controller. The objective will be to characterize robust adaptive coupling between perceptive activity and the environmental dynamics just through phase information processing. We will observe how the robustness of the coupling crucially depends of how the sensorimotor loop structures and constrains both the emergent neural and behavioral patterns. We will hypothesize that this structuration of the sensorimotor space, in which only meaningful behavioral patterns can be stabilized, is a key ingredient for the emergence of higher cognitive abilities. 000006274 521__ $$aMáster Universitario en Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática 000006274 540__ $$aDerechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons 000006274 6531_ $$acognitive science 000006274 6531_ $$aartificial intelligence 000006274 6531_ $$apost-cognitivism 000006274 6531_ $$asensorimotor loop 000006274 6531_ $$acoordination dynamics 000006274 6531_ $$ametastability in the brain 000006274 700__ $$aGonzález Bedia, Manuel$$edir. 000006274 700__ $$aSerón Arbeloa, Francisco José$$edir. 000006274 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bInformática e Ingeniería de Sistemas$$cLenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos 000006274 8560_ $$fmaguiler@unizar.es 000006274 8564_ $$s2236147$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/6274/files/TAZ-TFM-2011-040.pdf$$yMemoria (eng)$$zMemoria (eng) 000006274 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:6274$$pdriver$$ptrabajos-fin-master 000006274 950__ $$a 000006274 980__ $$aTAZ$$bTFM$$cCPS