TY - CONF T1 - Developing Sensorimotor Associations Through Attachment Bonds T2 - Proc. 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2007) Y1 - 2007 A1 - Antoine Hiolle A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Luc Berthouze ED - C G Prince ED - M Littman ED - Hideki Kozima ED - Christian Balkenius AB - Attachment bonds and positive affect help cognitive development and social interactions in infants and animals. In this paper we present a neural architecture to enable a robot to develop an attachment bond with a person or an object, and to discover the correct sensorimotor associations to maintain a desired affective state of well-being using a minimum amount of prior knowledge about the possible interactions with this object. We also discuss how our research on attachment bonds could further developmental robotics in the near future. JF - Proc. 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2007) T3 - Lund University Cognitive Studies PB - Lund University CY - Piscataway, NJ, USA VL - 134 SN - 91-974741-8-5 UR - https://www.lucs.lu.se/LUCS/135/Hiolle.pdf ER - TY - CONF T1 - From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction T2 - Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob2005) Y1 - 2005 A1 - Arnaud J Blanchard A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Luc Berthouze ED - Frédéric Kaplan ED - Hideki Kozima ED - Hiroyuki Yano ED - Jürgen Konczak ED - Giorgio Metta ED - Jacqueline Nadel ED - Giulio Sandini ED - Georgi Stojanov ED - Christian Balkenius AB - We present a Perception-Action architecture and experiments to simulate imprinting—the establishment of strong attachment links with a "caregiver"—in a robot. Following recent theories, we do not consider imprinting as rigidly timed and irreversible, but as a more flexible phenomenon that allows for further adaptation as a result of reward-based learning through experience. Our architecture reconciles these two types of perceptual learning traditionally considered as different and even incompatible. After the initial imprinting, adaptation is achieved in the context of a history of "affective" interactions between the robot and a human, driven by "distress" and "comfort" responses in the robot. JF - Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob2005) PB - Lund University Cognitive Studies SN - 91-974741-4-2 ER -