Paper Info
Title
The Embodied Dynamics of Emotion, Appraisal and Attention
Abstract
Emotions can be considered inextricably linked to embodied appraisals - perceptions of bodily states that inform agents of how they are faring in the world relative to their own well-being. Emotion-appraisals are thus relational phenomena the relevance of which can be learned or evolutionarily selected for given a reliable coupling between agent-internal and environmental states. An emotion-appraisal attentional disposition permits agents to produce behaviour that exploits such couplings allowing for adaptive agent performance across agent-environment interactions. This chapter discusses emotions in terms of dynamical processes whereby attentional dispositions are considered central to an understanding of behaviour. The need to reconcile a dynamical systems perspective with an approach that views emotions as attentional dispositions representative of embodied relational phenomena (embodied appraisals) is argued for. Attention and emotion are considered to be features of adaptive agent behaviour that are interdependent in their temporal, structural and organizational relations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-77343-6_1
WAPCV
Keywords
Field
DocType
bodily state,adaptive agent performance,attentional dispositions representative,embodied dynamics,adaptive agent behaviour,emotion-appraisal attentional disposition,chapter discusses emotion,attentional disposition,relational phenomenon,agent-environment interaction,dynamical systems perspective,computer and information science,technology,dynamic system
Interdependence,Social psychology,Cognitive science,Psychology,Exploit,Embodied cognition,Dynamical systems theory,Valuation (finance),Perception,Disposition,Information and Computer Science
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4840
0302-9743
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.69
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Lowe111112.22
Carlos Herrera Pérez2435.33
Anthony Morse3163.85
Tom Ziemke468167.03