To each his own: The caregiver's role in a computational model of gaze following

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 13-15, 2007, Pages 2166-2180

  Teuscher, Christof ^a   Triesch, Jochen ^b,c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Gaze following; Reinforcement learning; Shared attention; Temporal difference learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GAZE FOLLOWING; SHARED ATTENTION; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCE LEARNING;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; GAZE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34249744596     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.02.023     Document Type: Article

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