Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

The aim of this article is to outline 'communicative robots' as an increasingly relevant field of
media and communication research. Communicative robots are defined as autonomously …

This paper aims to investigate how adequate cognitive functions for recognizing, predicting,
and generating a variety of actions can be developed through iterative learning of action …

While the concept of a conscious machine is intriguing, producing such a machine remains
controversial and challenging. Here, we describe how our work on creating a humanoid …

Although the human mirror neuron system (MNS) is critical for action observation and
imitation, most MNS investigations overlook the visuospatial transformation processes that …

Humans are inherently social beings that benefit from their perceptional capability to
embody another point of view, typically referred to as perspective taking. Perspective taking …

This study presents a dynamic neural network model based on the predictive coding
framework for perceiving and predicting the dynamic visuo-proprioceptive patterns. In our …

Imitation learning allows social robots to learn new skills from human teachers without
substantial manual programming, but it is difficult for robotic imitation learning systems to …

Few investigations have examined mental workload during motor practice or learning in a
context of team dynamics. This study examines the underlying cognitive-motor processes of …

We present a neurocomputational controller for robotic manipulation based on the recently
developed “neural virtual machine”(NVM). The NVM is a purely neural recurrent architecture …