'Obsessed with goals': functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans.

By Gergely Csibra, György Gergely. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, positive): “For example, action efficiency can be manipulated by having a person take a short or long path to the same goal (Csibra and Gergely, 2007), e.”
Generating Legible Motion (2013, background): “III), we proposed such a model based on the theory of action interpretation [12] in psychology, the result having strong motivations in the principle of rational action [17].”
Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation. (2007, background): “Remarkably, humans and even young infants [4, 5] not only can attribute goals to familiar behaviors, but—relying on situational cues—can also understand even novel or improbable actions as intentional and goal directed [8].”
Parsing video events with goal inference and intent prediction (2011, background): “Cognitive studies[8] show that humans have a strong inclination to interpret observed behaviors of others as goaldirected actions.”
Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense (2020, background): “To address social learning, teleological action interpretational system [324] takes a ‘functional stance’ for the computational representation of goal-directed action [100], where”
Legibility and predictability of robot motion (2013, methodology): “The models are based on cost optimization, and resonate with the principle of rational action [12], [13].”
Learning Perceptual Causality from Video (2013, background): “Under the goal-driven stance taken by cognitive science researchers (Csibra and Gergely 2007), the agent’s action occurred because he wanted to change some facet of the world.”
Effects of Robot Motion on Human-Robot Collaboration (2015, background): “This raises new challenges for the robot’s motion, stemming from the two inferences that humans make when they collaborate [3, 20]: they infer actions from goals, and goals from actions.”
A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms (2009, background): “We begin by demonstrating that our model can replicate the tendency of primates to interpret and reproduce observed actions in a teleological manner, that is, in terms of the inferred goals of the action (Csibra & Gergely, 2007).”
Probabilistic Human Intent Recognition for Shared Autonomy in Assistive Robotics (2019, background): “Research studies in experimental psychology show that humans demonstrate a strong and early inclination to interpret observed behaviors of others as goal-directed actions [7].”
Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding (2011, neutral): “Goal-directed action encompasses behaviors that occur in a causal relationship with particular goals rather than by coincidence (Csibra and Gergely, 2007).”
Implicit Communication of Actionable Information in Human-AI teams (2019, background): “People perceive both humans [24] and robots [74] to be goal-oriented.”
Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states? (2009, methodology): “Perner ( 1991 ) and Csibra and Gergely ( 1998 , 2007 ) argued that before children can represent beliefs , they can predict actions by reason - ing about facts .”
Socially guided intrinsic motivation for robot learning of motor skills (2013, background): “A series of experiments ﬁnds that infants connect actions not only to their antecedents but also to their consequents (Csibra 2003; Csibra and Gergely 2007).”
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation (2011, neutral): “We also agree that the special type of teaching that we call natural pedagogy could only have evolved because individual social learning mechanisms that extracted knowledge from the observation of conspecifics' actions [71] were probably well developed in early hominin societies (cf.”