During our everyday lives, we are confronted with a vast amount of information from several
sensory modalities. This multisensory information needs to be appropriately integrated for us …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Recent approaches in robot perception follow the insight that perception is facilitated by
interaction with the environment. These approaches are subsumed under the term …

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard
Feynman's notes, he saw it as a" record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however …

Developmental robotics is an emerging field located at the intersection of robotics, cognitive
science and developmental sciences. This paper elucidates the main reasons and key …

This survey presents an overview of the autonomous development of mental capabilities in
computational agents. It does so based on a characterization of cognitive systems as …

In this chapter we discuss the mirror-neurons system, a cortical network of areas that
enables individuals to understand the meaning of actions performed by others through the …

This position paper proposes that the study of embodied cognitive agents, such as
humanoid robots, can advance our understanding of the cognitive development of complex …

Robust robotic manipulation and perception remains a difficult challenge, in particular in
unstructured environments. To address this challenge, we propose to couple manipulation …

Agents learning to act autonomously in real-world domains must acquire a model of the
dynamics of the domain in which they operate. Learning domain dynamics can be …