November 12-14, 2009
Venice, Italy
CañIfamero, L., Oudeyer, P.-Y. and Balkenius, C. (2009). Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 146. Lund: LUCS.
ISSN 1101-8453
ISBN 978-91-977-380-7-1
ISRN LUHFDA/HFKO–5070–SE
Table of Contents
Invited talks
- Cynthia Breazeal
Robots as social learners
- Heidi Keller
Relationship formation: the culture of attachment
- David Leavens
Joint attention in apes and humans
- Jacqueline Nadel
The missing link between emotion and motivation: insights from developmental research
- Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Why language acquisition and intrinsic motivation should go hand in hand
Papers
- Guillaume Aimetti, Louis ten Bosch, Roger K Moore
The emergence of words: Modelling early language acquisition with a dynamic systems perspective
- Christian Balkenius, Jan Morén, Stefan Winberg
Interactions between motivation, emotion and attention: From biology to robotics
- Luisa Damiano, Paul Dumouchel
Epigenetic embodiment
- Tomassino Ferrauto, Elio Tuci, Marco Mirolli, Gianluca Massera, Stefano Nolfi
Two examples of active categorisation processes distributed over time
- Franck Guerin, Andrew Starckey
Applying the schema mechanism in continuous domains
- Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Minoru Asada
Caregiver’s auto-mirroring and infant’s articulatory development enable vowel sharing
- Kenta Kawamoto, Yukiko Hoshino, Kuniaki Noda, Kohtaro Sabe
Self-regulation mechanism for continual autonomous learning in open-ended environments
- Rachel Lee, Ryan Walker, Lisa Meeden, James Marshall
Category-based intrinsic motivation
- Zoran Macura, Angelo Cangelosi, Rob Ellis, Davi Bugmann, Martin H Fisher, Andriy Myachykov
A cognitive robotic model of grasping
- Francesco Mannella, Ansgar Koene, Gianluca Baldassare
Navigation via Pavlovian conditioning: a robotic bio-constrained model of autoshaping in rats
- Kathryn Merrick
Evaluating intrinsically motivated robots using affordances and point-cloud matrices
- Matthew Miller, Alexander Stoychev
An unsupervised model of infant acoustic speech segmentation
- Jonathan Mugan, Benjamin Kuipers
A comparison of strategies for developmental action acquisition in QLAP
- Francesco Nori, Giulio Sandini, Jürgen Konczak
Can imprecise internal motor models explain the ataxic hand trajectories during reaching in young infants?
- Masaki Ogino, Tetsuya Fujita, Sawa Fuke, Minoru Asada
Learning of situation dependent prediction toward acquiring physical causality
- Kohtaro Sabe, Kenta Kawamoto, Hirotaka Suzuki, Katsuki Minamino, Kenichi Hidai
Reward-free learning using sparsely-connected hidden Markov models and local controllers
- Danijel Skocaj, Matej Kristan, Ales Leonardis
Formalization of different learning strategies in a continuous domain framework
- Jeremy Stober, Lewis Fishgold, Benjamin Kuipers
Learning the sensorimotor structure of the foveated retina
- Hidenobu Sumioka, Yuji Takeuchi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Minoru Asada
Bottom-up social development through reproducing contingency with sensorimotor clustering
- Emre Ugur, Erol Sahin, Erhan Oztop
Affordance learning from range data for multi-step planning