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Decision-making neural circuits mediating social behaviors : An attractor network model.

Journal of computational neuroscience
We propose a mathematical model of a continuous attractor network that controls social behaviors. The model is examined with bifurcation analysis and computer simulations. The results show that the model exhibits stable steady states and thresholds f...

An unsupervised learning approach for tracking mice in an enclosed area.

BMC bioinformatics
BACKGROUND: In neuroscience research, mouse models are valuable tools to understand the genetic mechanisms that advance evidence-based discovery. In this context, large-scale studies emphasize the need for automated high-throughput systems providing ...

Robot education peers in a situated primary school study: Personalisation promotes child learning.

PloS one
The benefit of social robots to support child learning in an educational context over an extended period of time is evaluated. Specifically, the effect of personalisation and adaptation of robot social behaviour is assessed. Two autonomous robots wer...

An efficient semi-supervised community detection framework in social networks.

PloS one
Community detection is an important tasks across a number of research fields including social science, biology, and physics. In the real world, topology information alone is often inadequate to accurately find out community structure due to its spars...

The Tactile Ethics of Soft Robotics: Designing Wisely for Human-Robot Interaction.

Soft robotics
Soft robots promise an exciting design trajectory in the field of robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI), promising more adaptive, resilient movement within environments as well as a safer, more sensitive interface for the objects or agents the r...

What makes a robot 'social'?

Social studies of science
Rhetorical moves that construct humanoid robots as social agents disclose tensions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and social robotics. The discourse of robotics often constructs robots that are like us (and therefore unli...

The ontogeny of kin-recognition mechanisms in Belding's ground squirrels.

Physiology & behavior
Despite extensive research on the functions and mechanisms of kin recognition, little is known about developmental changes in the abilities mediating such recognition. Belding's ground squirrels, Urocitellus beldingi, use at least two mechanisms of k...

Living with the animals: animal or robotic companions for the elderly in smart homes?

Journal of medical ethics
Although the use of pet robots in senior living facilities and day-care centres, particularly for individuals suffering from dementia, has been intensively researched, the question of introducing pet robots into domestic settings has been relatively ...

Interactions With Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves.

Annual review of psychology
In movies, robots are often extremely humanlike. Although these robots are not yet reality, robots are currently being used in healthcare, education, and business. Robots provide benefits such as relieving loneliness and enabling communication. Engin...

The Role of Reciprocity in Verbally Persuasive Robots.

Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
The current research examines the persuasive effects of reciprocity in the context of human-robot interaction. This is an important theoretical and practical extension of persuasive robotics by testing (1) if robots can utilize verbal requests and (2...