Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
To what extent can humans form social relationships with robots? In the present study, we combined functional neuroimaging with a robot socializing intervention to probe the flexibility of empathy, a core component of social relationships, towards ro...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
We present a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm for second-person neuroscience. The paradigm compares a human social interaction (human-human interaction, HHI) to an interaction with a conversational robot (human-robot interaction, ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
Trust is a critical issue in human-robot interactions: as robotic systems gain complexity, it becomes crucial for them to be able to blend into our society by maximizing their acceptability and reliability. Various studies have examined how trust is ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
Human-centred AI/Robotics are quickly becoming important. Their core claim is that AI systems or robots must be designed and work for the benefits of humans with no harm or uneasiness. It essentially requires the realization of autonomy, sociality an...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
What is a fundamental ability for cognitive development? Although many researchers have been addressing this question, no shared understanding has been acquired yet. We propose that predictive learning of sensorimotor signals plays a key role in earl...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Aug 5, 2018
This paper reviews computational modelling approaches to the learning of abstract concepts and words in embodied agents such as humanoid robots. This will include a discussion of the learning of abstract words such as 'use' and 'make' in humanoid rob...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jan 5, 2017
Even newborn infants are able to extract structure from a stream of sensory inputs; yet how this is achieved remains largely a mystery. We present a connectionist autoencoder model, TRACX2, that learns to extract sequence structure by gradually const...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jan 5, 2017
A growing literature suggests that the hippocampus is critical for the rapid extraction of regularities from the environment. Although this fits with the known role of the hippocampus in rapid learning, it seems at odds with the idea that the hippoca...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Aug 19, 2016
Evolution is marked by well-defined events involving profound innovations that are known as 'major evolutionary transitions'. They involve the integration of autonomous elements into a new, higher-level organization whereby the former isolated units ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Aug 19, 2016
The evolution of life in our biosphere has been marked by several major innovations. Such major complexity shifts include the origin of cells, genetic codes or multicellularity to the emergence of non-genetic information, language or even consciousne...