Cognitive Representation of a Complex Motor Action Executed by Different Motor Systems

The present study evaluates the cognitive representation of a kicking movement performed by a human and a humanoid robot, and how they are represented in experts and novices of soccer and robotics, respectively. To learn about the expertise-dependent development of memory structures, we compared the...

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Published in:Minds and machines (Dordrecht) 2015-02, Vol.25 (1), p.1-15
Main Authors: Lex, Heiko, Schütz, Christoph, Knoblauch, Andreas, Schack, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Psychology
Computer Science
Economics
Game Theory
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Social and Behav. Sciences
Theory of Computation
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Summary:The present study evaluates the cognitive representation of a kicking movement performed by a human and a humanoid robot, and how they are represented in experts and novices of soccer and robotics, respectively. To learn about the expertise-dependent development of memory structures, we compared the representation structures of soccer experts and robot experts concerning a human and humanoid robot kicking movement. We found different cognitive representation structures for both expertise groups under two different motor performance conditions (human vs. humanoid robot). In general, the expertise relies on the perceptual-motor knowledge of the human motor system. Thus, the soccer experts’ cognitive representation of the humanoid robot movement is dominated by their representation of the corresponding human movement. Additionally, our results suggest that robot experts, in contrast to soccer experts, access functional features of the technical system of the humanoid robot in addition to their perceptual-motor knowledge about the human motor system. Thus, their perceptual-motor and neuro-functional machine representation are integrated into a cognitive representation of the humanoid robot movement.
ISSN:0924-6495
1572-8641
DOI:10.1007/s11023-014-9351-9