T22, Cognitive robotics, (José Santos-Victor)

Question 1

how can we be happier because we can recognize faces and imitate expression from birth?

Answer 1

1. recognize your spicies

2. create empathy so people can give you food and shelters

Question 2

attentional blindness?

Answer 2

we are so focused on the target so we miss important other information. we only have some cognitive possibility to use our attention on

Question 3

what is cognition?

Answer 3

1. adaptability
2. anticipation
3. context understanding
4. communication
5. perception/action
6. interaction with humans

Question 4

what is mirror neurons?

Answer 4

1. Mirror neurons are active when we se another person or similar to a person interacting with something
2. Observed and executed actions are the same in the brain when mirror neurons are activated
3. mirror neurons are not activated when we use for example a tool instead of a human and overrated and executed action is therefor not the same in the brain
4. Basis for the delopment of social interaction and communication system
5. internal representation of observed actions

Question 5

what is canonical neurons?

Answer 5

motor description of observed object

Question 6

what is action observation/execution resonance?

Answer 6

Resonating, feeding a baby and you start opening your mouth as well

Question 7

how does motor based action recognition work?

Answer 7

motorically
visual–>motor–> gesture classification
(after using the VVM)

Question 8

data acquisition?

Answer 8

?

Question 9

motor perception?

Answer 9

looking at a game, you are also running, the neurons are active

Question 10

baseball experiment?

Answer 10

the better we are in acting, the better we are in understanding.

mirror neurons, the more we understand our own actions the more we can predict

Question 11

why do we move our eyes?

Answer 11

1. oriente attention to process seee more
2. to see more detailed things… can only see detailes in the middle of the eye

only see color in the middle (fovea about 2°)

Question 12

retino-cortical mapping?

Answer 12

Photoreceptors - 217 10^6

Black and white - rods 120 10^6

Question 13

Object moves and 4 weeks infant is stationary, lag or no lag?

Answer 13

Lag!

—>tracking moving abject with smooth eye movement functions very poorly in young infants

Question 14

4 weeks infant moves and object is stationary, lag or no lag?

Answer 14

No lag!

—> Functions very wellcompensations primarily guided by vestibular information

Question 15

Object moves and 4 month infant is stationary, lag or no lag?

Answer 15

No lag!
—> smooth pursuit has high relative amplitude and little or no lag
—> 5 months infants can track very fast motions