Lecture 2: Tony Prescott - Making our selves: From psychology to robotics

HBP Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Brain Science | Cognitive systems for non-specialists | 4th Teaching Cycle

Lecture 2: Making our selves: From psychology to robotics
Speaker: Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield, UK

This talk will explore how the approach of neurorobotics could enhance our understanding of the human condition by creating robotic models of the human sense of self. Beginning in philosophy and psychology, I will argue that a synthetic approach can address unanswered questions about the nature and emergence self, in evolution and development, and test hypotheses about the functional brain architecture underlying the human experience of being an embodied self. Following Ulrich Neisser, I will argue for a decomposition of the human self into multiple processes relating to its physical, temporal, social, and narrative aspects and will focus in on the role of autobiographical memory in generating the temporal self and the human capacity for mental time travel. I will conclude by reporting on progress in developing a systems-level model of autobiographical memory as part of a broader brain-based architecture for social cognition in the iCub humanoid robot.

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