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| Name | Kevin O'Regan: The sensorimotor approach to understanding "feel" in humans and robots |
| Video Uploader | Video From Aldebaran, part of United Robotics Group |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 11-09-2014 12:17:31 |
| Video Discription | How could you build a robot that really felt pain, instead of just displaying avoidance reactions? Why does red look red to us, rather than looking green? Questions like this remain mysterious if you take the classic view that sensations are the kinds of things that can be generated by physico-chemical mechanisms in the brain, or in a robot. The "sensorimotor approach" on the other hand suggests that it is a mistake to think that sensations are the kind of things that can be generated. Instead the approach claims that we should think of sensations as ways of interacting with the environment. The quality of a sensory experience is then constituted by the laws of "sensorimotor contingency" that link voluntary actions to the resulting changes in sensory input. I shall illustrate how taking this stance predicts and explains known phenomena such as Change Blindness and sensory substitution, and gives rise to interesting empirical paradigms. I shall illustrate with the example of color, and with the question of how the notion of space could emerge in an infant or robot. Dr Kevin O'Regan - Researcher Scientist - Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception - University of Paris Descartes Kevin O'Regan is ex-director of the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS, Université Paris Descartes. After studying theoretical physics at Sussex and Cambridge Universities, Kevin moved to Paris in 1975 to work in experimental psychology at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Following his Ph. D. on eye movements in reading he showed the existence of an optimal position for the eye to fixate in words. His interest in the problem of the perceived stability of the visual world led him to question established notions of the nature of visual perception, and to predict, with collaborators, the phenomenon of "change blindness". His current work involves exploring the empirical consequences of a new "sensorimotor" approach to vision and sensation in general. He is particularly interested in the problem of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, which he addresses experimentally and theoretically in relation to sensory substitution, sensory adaptation, pain, color, space perception, and developmental psychology. He is interested in applying this work to robotics. Kevin O'Regan has recently published a book: "Why red doesn't sound like a bell: Understanding the feel of consciousness" with Oxford University Press. The A-Talks are gathering world-reknowned experts in fields related to robotics & AI, presenting ground breaking ideas in various domain from robotics and computer science, to psychology, language or social sciences. We want to bring to the audience fresh new ideas, just beyond the level of popular science into the real core of today's top most advanced research in the field. Our ambition is that if you listen to an A-Talk, there is a good chance you'll hear ideas that you've never heard before! |
| Category | Science & Technology |
| Tags | Kevin O'Regan | sensorimotor | robots | nao |
