ABSTRACT
Autonomous agents should be able to operate in largely unknown and unstructured dynamical environments without any need for human intervention. Autonomous agents are rarely used as empirical models which aim at reproducing empirical data gathered from animals or humans. In all experiments carried out until, the robot model showed the same kind of performance as the animals. Most importantly, the same error rate was reached in the individual experiments, and dimensional color stimuli were learned considerably faster than dimensional line orientation stimuli in both the chickens and the robot model. The model animal and the robot model are tested in the same or similar environments commonly used in comparative psychology, with the same or similar means of analysis. The match between those measurements is taken as an indication of the quality of the model. Visual patterns are directly associated with behaviors, and no additional matching on an abstract category representation is assumed.
