This paper reviews studies on infants' imitation of goal-directed actions in the first two years
of life. Special emphasis is given to the role of the two observable components of an action …

The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …

Adults and children readily construct action representations organized with respect to an
ultimate goal. These representations allow one to predict the consequences of action …

Infant imitation demonstrates that the perception and production of human action are closely
linked by a 'supramodal'representation of action. This action representation unites …

Prior work suggests that active experience affects infants' understanding of simple actions.
The present studies compared the impact of active and observational experience on infants' …

Observational learning is probably one of the most powerful factors determining progress
during child development. When learning a new skill, infants rely on their own exploration; …

Performing action has been found to have a greater impact on learning than observing
action. Here we ask whether a particular type of action–the gestures that accompany talk …

Inspired by infant development, we propose a three staged developmental framework for an
anthropomorphic robot manipulator. In the first stage, the robot is initialized with a basic …

We take an evolutionary developmental perspective to examine the development of and sex
differences in object-oriented play and tool use and the relationship between the two. We …

In this paper, we show that through self-interaction and self-observation, an
anthropomorphic robot equipped with a range camera can learn object affordances and use …