Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A: Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding

✍ Scribed by Masashi Kasaki, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Minoru Asada, Mariko Osaka, Takashi Fujikado (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics is the first introductory book on this new interdisciplinary area. This book consists of two volumes, the first of which, Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding, advances human understanding from a robotics or engineering point of view. The second, Analytic Approaches to Human Understanding, addresses related subjects in cognitive science and neuroscience. These two volumes are intended to complement each other in order to more comprehensively investigate human cognitive functions, to develop human-friendly information and robot technology (IRT) systems, and to understand what kind of beings we humans are.

Volume A describes how human cognitive functions can be replicated in artificial systems such as robots, and investigates how artificial systems could acquire intelligent behaviors through interaction with others and their environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Compliant Body as a Source of Intelligence....Pages 1-23
Motor Control Based on the Muscle Synergy Hypothesis....Pages 25-50
Mechanism for Cognitive Development....Pages 51-72
Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognitive Development....Pages 73-93
Attention and Preference of Humans and Robots....Pages 95-119
Communication for Social Robots....Pages 121-151
System Evaluation and User Interfaces....Pages 153-171
Robotics for Safety and Security....Pages 173-192
Android Science....Pages 193-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-236

✦ Subjects

Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computational Intelligence; Neurosciences