Social robots serve people as tutors, caretakers, receptionists, companions, and other social
agents. People know that the robots are mechanical artifacts, yet they interact with them as if …

Synthetic approaches to social interaction support the development of a second-person
neuroscience. Agent-based models and psychological experiments can be related in a …

How should biological behaviour be modelled? A relatively new approach is to investigate
problems in neuroethology by building physical robot models of biological sensorimotor …

We don't yet have adequate theories of what the human mind is representing when it
represents a social group. Worse still, many people think we do. This mistaken belief is a …

Organisms engage in various activities that are directed at objects, whether real or
imagined. Such activities may be termed “intentional relations.” We present a four-level …

Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attributing socialness to artificial
agents has important implications for how we can use technology to lead more productive …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

Our book examines the mechanisms that underlie social behavior and communication in
East African vervet monkeys. Our goal is to describe the sophistication of primate …

Robots are currently the center of attention in various fields of research because of their
potential use as assistants for daily living. In this article, I highlight a different role that robots …