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Learning for joint attention helped by functional development

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Learning for joint attention helped by functional development
Cognitive scientists and developmental psychologists have suggested that development in perceptual, motor and memory functions of human infants as well as adaptive evaluation by caregivers facilitate learning for cognitive tasks by infants. This article presents a robotic approach to understanding the mechanism of how learning for joint attention can be helped by such functional development. A robot learns visuomotor mapping needed to achieve joint attention based on evaluations from a caregiver. The caregiver adjusts the criterion for evaluating the robot's performance from easy to difficult as the performance improves. At the same time, the robot also gradually develops its visual function by sharpening input images. Experiments reveal that the adaptive evaluation by the caregiver accelerates the robot's learning and that the visual development in the robot improves the accuracy of joint attention tasks due to its well-structured visuomotor mapping. These results constructi...
Yukie Nagai, Minoru Asada, Koh Hosoda
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where AR
Authors Yukie Nagai, Minoru Asada, Koh Hosoda
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