{"pk":26754,"title":"Is it Living? Insights from Modeling Event-Oriented, Self-Motivated, Acting,Learning and Conversing Game Agents","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A cognitive architecture is presented, which combines insights from artificial intelligence with cognitive psychology,biology, and linguistics. Using a Super Mario clone, we equipped the simulated agents with (i) motivational behavioral systems,(ii) reasoning and planning capabilities, (iii) event-based schema learning and sensorimotor exploration, and (iv) speech com-prehension and generation mechanisms. The motivational system activates goal events to maintain internal homeostasis. Toinvoke selected events, hierarchical action planning and control unfolds both on an event-schematic and a sensorimotor level.Schema learning is based on the detection of event changes, which are not predicted by the basic sensorimotor forward model.Language is comprehended and generated using context-free grammars linked to the schema-based knowledge structure. Thework offers an approach to develop and thus to ground conceptual, semantic world knowledge in sensorimotor interactions andto couple this knowledge with a language to generate and comprehend language about the agent’s virtual world meaningfully.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/968827th","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Martin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Butz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Mihael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Simonic","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Marcel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Binz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Einig","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ehrenfeld","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Fabian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schrodt","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26754/galley/16390/download/"}]}