"Social" robots are psychological agents for infants: A test of gaze following

Neural Networks

Volumn 23, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 966-972

  Meltzoff, Andrew N ^a   Brooks, Rechele ^a   Shon, Aaron P ^b   Rao, Rajesh P N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; Gaze following; Imitation; Social cognition; Social robots

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN LEARNING; GAZE FOLLOWING; IMITATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957877671     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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