TY - GEN
T1 - Attachment and cognitive architecture
AU - Horswill, Ian D
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Humans are interesting combinations of mammalian drives such as feeding, child rearing, and group affiliation, with high level cognitive capabilities such as language and planning. In this position paper, I argue that the attachment behavior system is an interesting boundary case to examine because, while attachment in young children is extremely similar attachment behavior in other primates, it develops alongside high level cognition to quickly incorporate human-specific skills such as language. This makes it hard to fit cleanly into most agent architectures.
AB - Humans are interesting combinations of mammalian drives such as feeding, child rearing, and group affiliation, with high level cognitive capabilities such as language and planning. In this position paper, I argue that the attachment behavior system is an interesting boundary case to examine because, while attachment in young children is extremely similar attachment behavior in other primates, it develops alongside high level cognition to quickly incorporate human-specific skills such as language. This makes it hard to fit cleanly into most agent architectures.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52449121802
SN - 9781577353607
T3 - AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 50
EP - 51
BT - Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior - Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
T2 - 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium
Y2 - 26 March 2008 through 28 March 2008
ER -