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The present study examined the effect of artifact's direction of attention detector (DAD) stimulating actions on the human psychological stance to the artifact. The DAD is a specialized brain function used to determine the attention target by combining information from separate detectors, e.g., direction of eye, head, body and locomotion. We designed sequences of DAD stimulating movement of a chair which can represent its attention to a subject. The chair was controlled by a remote experimenter. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions: the DAD stimulating condition and the random action condition (control condition). The result indicated that the DAD stimulating actions changed the subject's stance and enabled them to discern its intention. I. INTRODUCTION The ability to understand other people's beliefs, desires and intentions is known as theory of mind (ToM) (1) and is considered one of the building blocks of social interac- tion. Baron-cohen (2) proposed a theoretical model of the ToM that consisted of four sub-modules, which together comprise the human 'mind-reading' system. His model of a mindreading system assumes the following four modules: Intentionality Detector (ID), Eye Direction Detector (EDD), Shared-Attention Mechanism (SAM), and Theory-of-Mind Mechanism (ToMM). The ID is a perceptual device that interprets stimuli with self-propulsion and direction in terms of an agent with the primitive volitional mental states of goal and desire. The EDD has three basic functions of detecting the presence of eye-like stimuli, computing whether eyes are directed towards it or towards another direction and inferring from the observation that the organism's eyes are directed at something else that it actually sees something. The SAM is considered to be a higher order skill that allows the individual to form what is called 'triadic representation'. The ToMM is considered to be a system for inferring the complete range of mental states observed from human and animal behaviour. An animal's survival depends on its ability to identify the movements of prey, predators and mates, and to predict their future actions, the consequences of which are radi- cally different and could in some cases be fatal. One key function of EDD is rapid prediction of another organism's next action. Baron-Cohen suggested that the computational capacity of EDD has an innate neurophysiological basis in terms of Evolutionary Psychology (3) . Evidence for the neu- rophysiological basis of eye direction detection comes from neurophychology. Specific cells in the Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) of the monkey brain respond selectively to the |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314492 | RO-MAN |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
software agents,utility theory | Computer vision,Computer science,Cognitive science,Theory of mind,Software agent,Artificial intelligence | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.61 | 1 |
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Kazunori Terada | 1 | 73 | 17.42 |
| Takashi Shamoto | 2 | 17 | 1.89 |
| Akira Ito | 3 | 4 | 0.61 |