The human mirror neuron system (MNS): Toward a motivated autonomous agent

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-07-04, Issue , 2007, Pages 64-71

  Newlin, David B ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS-AGENT; EMERGENT AGENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS; TECHNICAL REPORTS;

AGENTS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; MIRRORS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 51849152316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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