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Michael K McBeath1, Ty Y Tang1, Dennis M Shaffer2
1Arizona State University, United States.
Consciousness and Cognition
|July 23, 2018
Summary
Understanding egocentric and allocentric reference frames is key for modeling organism and robot control. Egocentric frames suit perception-action, while allocentric frames aid conscious experience and higher cognition.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience
- Robotics
Background:
- Conscious experience requires a reference frame, crucial for scientific models.
- Control models, like ball interception, illustrate the importance of reference frames.
- Viewer-dependent egocentric and viewer-independent allocentric frames are contrasted.
Purpose of the Study:
- To differentiate between egocentric and allocentric reference frames in scientific models.
- To clarify their roles in perception-action behaviors and conscious experience.
- To resolve disputes in control tasks and inform biomimetic robot design.
Main Methods:
- Contrasting egocentric and allocentric reference frames in control models.
- Analyzing their application in Newtonian physics versus organism/robot control.
- Examining their use in brain-behavior models (Ventral/Dorsal Streams).
Main Results:
- Allocentric frames suit static models (e.g., physics), while egocentric frames suit mobile agents.
- Egocentric frames optimize low-level perception-action, while allocentric frames support high-level cognition.
- The Ventral ('What') Stream uses allocentric frames, and the Dorsal ('Where/How') Stream uses egocentric frames.
Conclusions:
- Clarifying reference frames resolves model disputes for tasks like baseball interception.
- Understanding reference frames offers insights for developing biomimetic robots.
- Perception-action is generally egocentric, while conscious experience is more allocentric.
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