Learning and adaptation: neural and behavioural mechanisms behind behaviour change

ABSTRACT

This special issue presents perspectives on learning and adaptation as they apply to a number of cognitive phenomena including pupil dilation in humans and attention in robots, natural language acquisition and production in embodied agents (robots), human-robot game play and social interaction, neural-dynamic modelling of active perception and neural-dynamic modelling of infant development in the Piagetian A-not-B task. The aim of the special issue, through its contributions, is to highlight some of the critical neural-dynamic and behavioural aspects of learning as it grounds adaptive responses in robotic- and neural-dynamic systems.

KEYWORDS:

• Embodiment
• neural dynamics
• conditioning
• interaction
• multimodal learning
• self-organisation

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