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HOW TO INVESTIGATE THE LIVING COGNITION: AN APPLICATION TO DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF MENTAL ACTIVITIES WHILE DRIVING

This paper is dedicated to the “living cognition” issues, which concern the ability of a cognitive model to simulate humans’ mental activities when dynamically interacting with the external environment. After having introduced the theoretical foundations of this approach, an integrative COgnitive Simulation MOdel of the DRIVEr is presented (i.e. COSMODRIVE). The central process that supports the living cognition in this model is the deployment of a cognitive schema, corresponding to the driver’s mental representation of the driving situation as instantiated in the Working Memory. This dynamic visual-spatial mental model, defined as the driver’s situational awareness, is used by the driver for perceptive exploration of the road scene, decision-making, anticipation and action planning, in order to interact with the road environment. This dynamic process of regulation is based on both implicit and explicit mental simulations and is illustrated through an example in the last section of the paper.