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

A key research challenge in robotics is to design robotic systems with the cognitive
capabilities necessary to support human–robot interaction. These systems will need to have …

Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) is an emerging field that has already seen some success and
is likely to develop in the future. One particular application area is within therapies for autism …

■ In order for robots to engage in dialogue with human teammates, they must have the
ability to identify correspondences between elements of language and aspects of the …

Four experiments (E1–E2–E3–E4) investigated whether different acquisition modalities lead
to the emergence of differences typically found between concrete and abstract words, as …

As embodied theories of cognition are increasingly formalized and tested, care must be
taken to make informed assumptions regarding the nature of concepts and representations …

This paper introduces a cognitive architecture for a humanoid robot to engage in a proactive,
mixed-initiative exploration and manipulation of its environment, where the initiative can …

Modeling is widely used in biomedical research to gain insights into pathophysiology and
treatment of neurological disorders but existing models, such as animal models and …

Construction grammarians are still quite reluctant to extend their descriptions to units
beyond the sentence. However, the theoretical premises of construction grammar and frame …

Evidence from developmental as well as neuroscientific studies suggest that finger counting
activity plays an important role in the acquisition of numerical skills in children. It has been …