Communication is not just the manipulation of words, but needs to decide what is communicated considering the surrounding situations and to understand the communicated signals considering how to reflect it on the actions. In this paper, aiming to the emergence of purposive and grounded communication, communication is seamlessly involved in the entire process consisted of one neural network, and...

Electrical stimulation has been delivered to the basal ganglia (BG) to treat intractable symptoms of a variety of clinical disorders. However, it is still unknown how such treatments improve behavioral symptoms. A difficulty of this problem is that artificial signals created by electrical stimulation interact with intrinsic signals before influencing behavior, thereby making it important to und...

Modern institutional economists look to pragmatism for: (1) an evolutionary philosophy of knowledge; and (2) a foundation of a theory of human nature. These two elements are combined in William James, who was both a philosopher of pragmatism and a pioneering experimental psychologist. The author shows first how William James added psychological depth to the pragmatic tradition as it was left by...

We consider the following problem: How should an observer change viewpoint in order to generate a dense image sequence of an arbitrary smooth surface so that it can be incrementally reconstructedusing the occluding contour and the epipolar parameterization? We present a collection of qualitative behaviors that, when integrated appropriately, purposefully control viewpoint based on the appearanc...

We present an approach for recovering a global surface model of an object from the deformation of the occluding contour using an active (i.e., mobile) observer able to control its motion. In particular, we consider two problems: (1) How can the observer’s viewpoint be controlled in order to generate a dense sequence of images that allows incremental reconstruction of an unknown surface, and (2)...

Despite substantial growth in the field of conservation planning, the speed and success with which conservation plans are converted into conservation action remains limited. This gap between science and action extends beyond conservation planning into many other applied sciences and has been linked to complexity of current societal problems, compartmentalization of knowledge and management sect...

We present an approach for recovering a global surface model of an object from the deformation of the occluding contour using an active (i.e., mobile) observer able to control its motion. In particular, we consider two problems: (1) How can the observer’s viewpoint be controlled in order to generate a dense sequence of images that allows incremental reconstruction of an unknown surface, and (2)...

Abstract. A simple and straightforward application of reinforcement learning methods to real robot tasks is considerably difficult due to a huge exploration space that easily scales up exponentially since recent robots tend to have many kinds of sensors. One of the potential solutions might be application of so-called “mixture of experts” proposed by Jacobs et al.[1]; it decomposes a whole stat...

BACKGROUND Recent legislation established a requirement for nutrition education in federal assistance programs to be evidence-based. Recruitment of low-income persons to participate and evaluate nutrition education activities can be challenging and costly. Facebook has been shown to be a cost-effective strategy to recruit this target audience to a nutrition program. OBJECTIVE The purpose of o...