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Evolution of Affect and Communication

Evolution of Affect and Communication

Matthias Scheutz
ISBN13: 9781616928926|ISBN10: 1616928921|EISBN13: 9781616928940
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch004
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Scheutz, Matthias. "Evolution of Affect and Communication." Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, edited by Didem Gökçay and Gülsen Yildirim, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 75-93. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch004

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Scheutz, M. (2011). Evolution of Affect and Communication. In D. Gökçay & G. Yildirim (Eds.), Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives (pp. 75-93). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch004

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Scheutz, Matthias. "Evolution of Affect and Communication." In Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, edited by Didem Gökçay and Gülsen Yildirim, 75-93. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter examines the utilization of affective control to support the survival of agents in competitive multi-agent environments. The author introduces simple affective control mechanisms for simple agents which result in high performance both in ordinary foraging tasks (e.g., searching for food) and in social encounters (e.g., competition for mates). In the proposed case, affective control via the transmission of simple signals can lead to social coordination. Therefore, this case prevents the need for more complex forms of communication like symbolic communication based on systematic representational schemata.

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