Assembly, tuning, and transfer of action systems in infants and robots

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-42

  Berthouze, Luc ^a   Goldfield, Eugene C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems; Evo devo; Infants; Motor development; Robots; Synthetic approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949209832     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.542     Document Type: Article

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