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title: "Situated Actions and Cognition"
authors:
  - "Jacques Penders"
  - "Peter J. Braspenning"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/198"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0198.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "1372-1380"
track: "Robotics"
keywords:
---

# Situated Actions and Cognition

Jacques Penders, Peter J. Braspenning

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1372-1380.

## Abstract

The paper addresses the concept of cognition starting from the role of a sensor basis in the design of robots . The field of robotics forces the discussion to be pragmatic which is considered to be advantageous. In addition, we introduce the notion of cognitive basis in order to discuss the cognitive abilities of an artificial creature. As cognition cannot be fully separated from action and acting, we present finally the notion of motor-schema basis. This basis involves actions and acting as integral parts of cognition.