How Emotional Mechanism Learn and Helps Other Types of Learning in a Cognitive Agent

Research in human neurobiology sustains the idea that emotions play a role, sometimes crucial, in most decisions and actions taken. Every input from perceptual mechanism passes through the amygdala before affecting action selection, sometimes temporarily bypassing detailed cortical interpretation. We describe our reproduction of these emotional mechanisms in our cognitive autonomous agent, CTS (Conscious Tutoring System), and hint at repercussions on its tutoring behaviors. The model replicates the amygdalapsilas emotional influence over different parts of the system as a means of preparing the system for action, biasing action selection, and improving the agent´s self-resilience in an unknown or changing environment. It all sums up to a way of improving the agentpsilas fitness and autonomy.