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

Cognitive developmental robotics (CDR) aims to provide new understanding of how
human's higher cognitive functions develop by means of a synthetic approach that …

In the past few years connectionist models have greatly contributed to formulating theories of
cognitive development. Some of these models follow the approach of developmental …

What is the social function of babbling? An important function of prelinguistic vocalizing may
be to elicit parental behavior in ways that facilitate the infant's own learning about speech …

The developmental origin of language communication seems to involve vocal interactions
between an infant and a caregiver, and one of the big mysteries related to this is how an …

Evidence exists for a form of imitation, vocal segmentation, by a Grey parrot. Data show that
the bird understands that his labels are comprised of individual units that can be recombined …

Modeling of evolution and development of language has principally utilized mature units of
spoken language, phonemes and words, as both targets and inputs. This approach cannot …

Vocal motor development in infancy provides a crucial foundation for language
development. Some significant early accomplishments include learning to control the …

We investigated the hypothesis that infants search in an acoustic space for vocalisations that
elicit adult utterances and vice versa, inspired by research on animal and human foraging …

Words are made up of speech sounds. Almost all accounts of child speech development
assume that children learn the pronunciation of first language (L1) speech sounds by …