Rapidly learning preconditions for means-ends behaviour using active learning

Severin Fichtl*, John Alexander, Frank Guerin, Jimmy Alison Jorgensen, Dirk Kraft, Norbert Krueger

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Abstract

In [1], we argue that ongoing development may be the result of a set of developmental mechanisms which are in continuous operation during infancy. One such mechanism identified is sensorimotor differentiation. Sensorimotor differentiation allows infants to generate new behaviours by modifying old ones. For example a young infant has a behaviour for waving an object back and forth on a table surface. At some later point, this behaviour becomes differentiated to produce a behaviour for deliberately displacing an object to one side in order to retrieve a visible toy behind it (see Figure I).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL 2012
PublisherIEEE Explore
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781467349635
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2012
Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL 2012 - "San Diego,CA", United States
Duration: 7 Nov 20129 Nov 2012

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
City"San Diego,CA"
Period7/11/129/11/12

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the EU Cognitive Systems project XPERlENCE (FP7-ICT-270273) and Leverhulme Grant F/OO 152/ AL.

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