Attention in Cognitive Systems 5th International Workshop on Att
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2008, held in Fira, Santorini, Greece in May 2008 as an associated event of the 6th International Conferen
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Lucas Paletta John K. Tsotsos (Eds.)
Attention in Cognitive Systems 5th International Workshop onAttention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2008 Fira, Santorini, Greece, May 12, 2008 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Lucas Paletta Joanneum Research Institute of Digital Image Processing Wastiangasse 6, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: [email protected] John K. Tsotsos York University Center for Vision Research (CVR) and Department of Computer Science and Engineering 4700 Keele St., Toronto ON M3J 1P3, Canada E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
Attention has represented a core scientific topic in the design of AI-enabled systems in the last few decades. Today, in the ongoing debate, design, and computational modeling of artificial cognitive systems, attention has gained a central position as a focus of research. For instance, attentional methods are considered in investigating the interfacing of sensory and cognitive information processing, for the organization of behaviors, and for the understanding of individual and social cognition in infant development. While visual cognition plays a central role in human perception, findings from neuroscience and experimental psychology have provided strong evidence about the perception–action nature of cognition. The embodied nature of sensorymotor intelligence requires a continuous and focused interplay between the control of motor activities and the interpretation of feedback from perceptual modalities. Decision making about the selection of information from the incoming sensory stream – in tune with contextual processing on a current task and an agent’s global objectives – becomes a further challenging issue in attentional contro
