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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lewis, Matthew
• Cañamero, Lola

Titel

Hedonic quality or reward? A study of basic pleasure in homeostasis and decision making of a motivated autonomous robot

Ist Teil von

• Adaptive behavior, 2016-10, Vol.24 (5), p.267-291

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We present a robot architecture and experiments to investigate some of the roles that pleasure plays in the decision making (action selection) process of an autonomous robot that must survive in its environment. We have conducted three sets of experiments to assess the effect of different types of pleasure—related versus unrelated to the satisfaction of physiological needs—under different environmental circumstances. Our results indicate that pleasure, including pleasure unrelated to need satisfaction, has value for homeostatic management in terms of improved viability and increased flexibility in adaptive behavior.