The Behavioral and brain sciences
Sep 28, 2023
Quilty-Dunn et al. argue that deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) optimized for image classification exemplify structural disanalogies to human vision. A different kind of artificial vision - found in reinforcement-learning agents navigating a...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
We take up issues raised in the commentaries about our proposal that social robots are depictions of social agents. Among these issues are the realism of social agents, experiencing robots, communicating with robots, anthropomorphism, and attributing...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
How do we switch between "playing along" and treating robots as technical agents? We propose interaction breakdowns to help solve this "social artifact puzzle": Breaks cause changes from fluid interaction to explicit reasoning and interaction with th...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Why is it that people simultaneously treat social robots as mere designed artefacts, yet show willingness to interact with them as if they were real agents? Here, we argue that Dennett's distinction between the intentional stance and the design stanc...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
The authors at times propose that robots mere depictions of social agents (a philosophical claim) and at other times that social robots as depictions (an empirical psychological claim). We evaluate each claim's accuracy both now and in the future a...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer (C&F) claim that trait attribution has major limitations in explaining human-robot interactions. We argue that the trait attribution approach can explain the three issues posited by C&F. We also argue that the trait attribution appr...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
In the target article, Clark and Fischer argue that little is known about children's perceptions of social robots. By reviewing the existing literature we demonstrate that infants and young children interact with robots in the same ways they do with ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer's three levels of depiction of social robots can be conceptualized as cognitive schemas. When interacting with social robots, humans shift between schemas similarly to how they shift between identity category schemas when interactin...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
When people interact with social robots, they treat them as real social agents. How people depict robots is fun to consider, but when people are confronted with embodied entities that move and talk - whether humans or robots - they interact with them...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
While we applaud the careful breakdown by Clark and Fischer of the representation of social robots held by the human user, we emphasise that a neurocognitive perspective is crucial to fully capture how people perceive and construe social robots at th...