Developing a sense of bodily self
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چکیده
The development and expression of higher cognitive functions, such as imitation, spatial perception, and tool-use rely on a body schema. Up to date, no general methodology exists about how a robot could learn its body representation. We propose a developmental approach to build the bodily self from the robot own multimodal sensorimotor experiences of self-observation and active interaction with the environment.
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