Information self-structuring: Key principle for learning and development

Proceedings of 2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 25-30

  Lungarella, Max ^a   Sporns, Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied interaction; Information structure; Information theory

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMBODIED INTERACTION; INFORMATION STRUCTURE; PERCEPTUAL CATEGORIZATION; SENSORIMOTORS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33745447695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2005.1490938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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