Who Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot

Index
Page numbers in bold indicate illustrations, figures, or tables. Page numbers followed by n indicate
information in chapter endnotes, for example 198n.4 indicates note four on page 198.
accessory basal (AB) nucleus, 90, 91, 140
action, OED definition, 372
actions. See also covert actions
and cortical networks, 159
and ideomotor action, 154
and motor imagery, 150, 158
neural basis of, 163
physiological basis for, 45
active, OED definition, 372
active avoidance, 121
active/passive response availability, 122
addiction. See drug addiction
affect. See also affect domain (effective
functioning); architectural basis for affect;
emotions
architectural constraints, 220–29
and behavior, 34–35
as emotions, moods, feelings, and preferences,
174
models for robots, 263–65
OED definition, 336
and opioids, 58, 61
varieties of, 212–20
affect and proto-affect model. See affect domain
(effective functioning); effective
functioning model
affect domain (effective functioning)
differences by level, 175, 179
emotions, full-fledged, 185–89
emotions, limited, 175
emotions, primitive, 182–85
and feelings, 174
and learning, 196
proto-affect, 175, 178–82, 197
at reactive level, 175, 179–82
at reflective level, 185–89
in robots, 195–96
at routine level, 182–85
and value, 174, 177
affective phenomena, 209
affective reasoner, 319–20
affective states. See also architectural basis for
affect
combining, 219
compared to non-affective, 213–15
complex, 218–19
conflicting, 219
and damping mechanism, 219
described, 212
“direction of fit,” 215
and emotions, 29, 204, 208–12
Kismet Project, 282–84, 284, 298
propositional content, 214
semantic content, 214
“track the truth,” 214
varieties of, 220
affective tags, 299–301, 300
affordances, 345, 349, 351
agent architecture, 285–87
agent-human teams (AI), 313
agent proxy, 317–18
agents (AI), 312. See also multiagent teamwork
(AI)
aggression, 30–31, 56–58
AIBO (robot dog), 259–61, 261
AIP (anterior intraparietal area), 350–52
alarm mechanisms. See interruption of higher
levels
alcohol, 64, 135
alien intelligence, 225
altruism, 129
amphetamines, 139–40