The Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Gras**
Achieving Sensorimotor Skills through Dorsal-Ventral Stream Integration
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Robotic Music Therapy Assistant: A Cognitive Game Playing Robot
Music Therapy is a non-pharmacological treatment used to maintain/enhance cognitive abilities, on the basis that music is able to simultaneously activate multiple brain functions. In this paper we propose the ...
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Anomaly Detection in Activities of Daily Living with Linear Drift
Anomalyq detection in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) plays an important role in e-health applications. An abrupt change in the ADL performed by a subject might indicate that she/he needs some help. Another i...
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Affective Visuomotor Interaction: A Functional Model for Socially Competent Robot Gras**
In the context of human-robot social interactions, the ability of interpreting the emotional value of objects and actions is critical for robots to achieve truly meaningful interchanges with human partners. We...
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Can Our Robots Rely on an Emotionally Charged Vision-for-Action? An Embodied Model for Neurorobotics
The aim of blended cognition is to contribute to the design of more realistic and efficient robots by looking at the way humans can combine several kinds of affective, cognitive, sensorimotor and perceptual re...
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Sensorial Computing
Humanity is at a special time in its relationship with technology where there is an increasing likelihood of artificially replicating characteristics which we thought were in the realm of the distinctly human....
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Introduction
This book introduces a full framework of the sequence of sensorimotor transformations required to plan and execute hand movements suitable to grasp nearby objects. Present day research on robotic vision-based ...
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The Neuroscience of Action and Perception
The visual cortex of humans and other primates is composed of two main information pathways, called ventral stream and dorsal stream in relation to their location in the brain. The traditional distinction (Ungerl...
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Vision-Based Gras**, Where Robotics Meets Neuroscience
This chapter describes how we model the integration of on-line, action-oriented visual information (dorsal pathway) with knowledge about the target object and memories of previous gras** experiences and obje...
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Visuomotor Transformations for Grasp Planning and Execution
This chapter deals with the tasks of transforming object properties, relevant for gras** purposes, into suitable hand configurations, and executing an appropriate gras** action on the target object. Analyt...
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Intelligent Robotic Gras**?
Mutual interest between the fields of robotics and cognitive sciences has been steadily growing in the recent years, especially through the bridging of artificial intelligence research. Nevertheless, the diffe...
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Extraction of Grasp-Related Visual Features
This chapter describes how we model the integration of on-line, action-oriented visual information (dorsal pathway) with knowledge about the target object and memories of previous gras** experiences and obje...
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An Ever-Develo** Research Framework
This chapter presents a number of issues and developments related to possible extensions of the model in Chaps. 4, 5 and ...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
From Animals to Animats 13
13th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-25, 2014. Proceedings
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Speeding-Up the Learning of Saccade Control
A saccade is a ballistic eye movement that allows the visual system to bring the target in the center of the visual field. For artificial vision systems, as in humanoid robotics, performing such a movement req...
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On-Line Learning of the Visuomotor Transformations on a Humanoid Robot
In infant primates, the combination of looking and reaching to the same target is used to establish an implicit sensorimotor representation of the peripersonal space. This representation is created incremental...
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Time to Change: Deciding When to Switch Action Plans during a Social Interaction
Building on the extensive cognitive science literature on the subject, this paper introduces a model of the brain mechanisms underlying social interactions in humans and other primates. The fundamental compone...
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Towards Contextual Action Recognition and Target Localization with Active Allocation of Attention
Exploratory gaze movements are fundamental for gathering the most relevant information regarding the partner during social interactions. We have designed and implemented a system for dynamic attention allocati...
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A Pilot Study on Saccadic Adaptation Experiments with Robots
Despite the increasing mutual interest, robotics and cognitive sciences are still lacking common research grounds and comparison methodologies, for a more efficient use of modern technologies in aid of neurosc...
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Eye-Hand Coordination for Reaching in Dorsal Stream Area V6A: Computational Lessons
Data related to the coordination and modulation between visual information, gaze direction and arm reaching movements in primates are analyzed from a computational point of view. The goal of the analysis is to...
