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Recent studies in psychology revealed that the emergence of infants' ability to predict others' action goals is correlated with the development of their motor ability to produce similar actions. In this regard, studies in neuroscience suggest that perception and production of actions share the same neural architecture (i.e., mirror neuron system). However, it is not yet clear what learning mechanisms...
Recent studies have revealed that infants' goal-directed action execution strongly alters their perception of similar actions performed by other individuals. Such an ability to recognize correspondences between self-experience and others' actions may be crucial for the development of higher cognitive social skills. However, there is not yet a computational model or constructive explanation accounting...
In order to help people suffering from autism spectrum disorder (ASD), assistance systems have been developed with a focus on enabling ASD people to adapt to activities of daily living (e.g., augmentative and alternative communication systems [1]). However, if we reverse our viewpoint, we can develop a new concept for the assistance system: letting normal developed (ND) people experience the perceptual...
By three years of age, children are supposed to start learning to understand syntactic structures, and at around five years of age, they are reported to be able to infer a syntactic category, such as a noun or a verb, for a novel word. Finding the syntactic cue enables them to infer a target directed by a novel word in visual stimuli. The study also found that their inference performances depended...
Understanding others' actions as goal-directed is a key mechanism to develop social cognitive abilities such as imitation and cooperation. Recent findings in psychology have demonstrated that the ability to predict the goal of observed actions emerges as early as six months in infancy. However, what mechanisms are involved and how they trigger the development of this ability are still open questions...
Goals are abstractions that express agents' intention and allow them to organize their behavior appropriately. How can agents develop such goals autonomously? This paper proposes a conceptual and computational account to this longstanding problem. We argue to consider goals as abstractions of lower-level intention mechanisms such as rewards and values, and point out that goals need to be considered...
It has been suggested that perceptual immaturity in early infancy enhances learning for various cognitive functions. This paper demonstrates the role of visual development triggered by self-organization in a learner's visual space in a case of the mirror neuron system (MNS). A robot learns a function of the MNS by associating self-induced motor commands with observed motions while the observed motions...
In performing various kinds of tasks, body representation is one of the most fundamental issues for physical agents (humans, primates, and robots). Especially during tool-use by Japanese macaque monkeys, neurophysiological evidence shows that the representation can be dynamically reconstructed by spatio-temporal integration of different sensor modalities so that it can be adaptive to environmental...
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