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This paper reports on a developmental approach to the learning of communication in embodied agents, taking inspiration from child development and recent advances in the understanding of the mirror neuron system within the brain. We describe a part of the ROSSI project which focuses upon gestural communication in the form of pointing. We are examining the idea that pointing may be a key step towards...
Imitation is a powerful mechanism for rapidly learning new skills through observation of a mentor. Developmental studies indicate that children often perform goal-based imitation rather than mimicking a mentor's actual action trajectories. Further, imitation, and human behavior in general, appear to be based on a hierarchy of actions, with higher-level actions composed of sequences of lower-level...
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) show a variety of atypical behavioral and perceptual patterns which seem to lack a common underlying cause. We hypothesize that there may be a general impairment of the autistic brain characterized by a restriction on the class of connectivity patterns, i.e. features, that can be utilized for learning perceptual and cognitive tasks. In particular, we...
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