Human Understanding

Editors: Kasaki, M., Ishiguro, H., Asada, M., Osaka, M., Fujikado, T. (Eds.)
Addresses interdisciplinary research linking cognitive science, neuroscience, and robotics
Helps readers understand the need for collaboration with other disciplines
Describes to what extent cognitive science and neuroscience have revealed the underlying mechanism of human cognition, and investigates how development of neural engineering and advances in other disciplines could lead to deep understanding of human cognition

This is the third book presenting selected results of research on the further development of the shape understanding system (SUS) carried out by authors in the newly founded Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of Understanding. In this book the new term Machine Understanding is introduced referring to a new area of research aiming to investigate the possibility of building machines with the ability to understand. It is presented that SUS needs to some extent mimic human understanding and for this reason machines are evaluated according to the rules applied for the evaluation of human understanding. The book shows how to formulate problems and how it can be tested if the machine is able to solve these problems.

Editors: Kasaki, M., Ishiguro, H., Asada, M., Osaka, M., Fujikado, T. (Eds.)
Addresses interdisciplinary research linking cognitive science, neuroscience, and robotics
Helps readers understand the need for collaboration with other disciplines
Describes how human cognitive functions can be replicated in artificial systems such as robots, and investigates how artificial systems could acquire intelligent behaviors through interaction with others and their environment