Neuroscientific and psychological data suggest a close link between affordance and mirror
systems in the brain. However, we still lack a full understanding of both the individual …

Neurophysiology reveals the properties of individual mirror neurons in the macaque while
brain imaging reveals the presence of 'mirror systems'(not individual neurons) in the human …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

According to the motor theories of perception, the motor systems of an observer are actively
involved in the perception of actions when these are performed by a demonstrator. In this …

Mirror neurons for manipulation fire both when the animal manipulates an object in a
specific way and when it sees another animal (or the experimenter) perform an action that is …

In this paper, we analyze the different approaches taken to date within the computer vision,
robotics and artificial intelligence communities for the representation, recognition, synthesis …

Moving beyond the stimulus contained in observable agent behaviour, ie understanding the
underlying intent of the observed agent is of immense interest in a variety of domains that …

Gras** and manipulating everyday objects in a goal-directed manner is an important
ability of a service robot. The robot needs to reason about task requirements and ground …

How does an individual use the knowledge acquired through self exploration as a
manipulable model through which to understand others and benefit from their knowledge …

The grounding of symbols in computational models of linguistic abilities is one of the
fundamental properties of psychologically plausible cognitive models. In this article, we …