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abstract: |-
  The paper provides a summary of our
  recent research on preverbal infants (using
  violation-of-expectation and observational
  learning paradigms) demonstrating that one-year-olds interpret and draw systematic
  inferences about other’s goal-directed actions,
  and can rely on such inferences when imitating
  other’s actions or emulating their goals. To
  account for these findings it is proposed that one-year-olds apply a non-mentalistic action
  interpretational system, the ’teleological stance’
  that represents actions by relating relevant
  aspects of reality (action, goal-state, and
  situational constraints) through the principle of
  rational action, which assumes that actions
  function to realize goal-states by the most
  efficient means available in the actor’s situation.
  The relevance of these research findings and the
  proposed theoretical model for how to realize the
  goal of epigenetic robotics of building a ’socially
  relevant’ humanoid robot is discussed.
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confdates: 'August 4-5, 2003'
conference: 'Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
confloc: 'Boston, MA, USA'
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creators_name:
  - family: Gergely
    given: György
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2003
date_type: published
datestamp: 2004-02-12
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editors_name:
  - family: Prince
    given: Christopher G.
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Berthouze
    given: Luc
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Kozima
    given: Hideki
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Bullock
    given: Daniel
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Stojanov
    given: Georgi
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Balkenius
    given: Christian
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
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keywords: 'teleological stance, goal-directd action, violaiton of expectation, non-mentatlistic action interpretation'
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:27
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pagerange: 13-24
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publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
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rev_number: 12
series: ~
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:50:30
subjects:
  - dev-psy
  - comp-sci-robot
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title: |-
  What should a robot learn from an infant?
  Mechanisms of action interpretation and
  observational learning in infancy
type: confpaper
userid: 3507
volume: 101
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