Shared challenges in object perception for robots and infants

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-24

  Fitzpatrick, Paul ^a,d   Needham, Amy ^b   Natale, Lorenzo ^a,c,d   Metta, Giorgio ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active perception; Embodiment; Infant development; Intermodal integration; Object segregation; Robotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949151938     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.541     Document Type: Article

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