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International Initiatives
Inria Associate Teams not involved in an Inria International Labs
NEUROCURIOSITY
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International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):
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See also: https://flowers.inria.fr/curiosity-information-seeking-and-attention-in-human-adults-models-and-experiments/
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One of the most striking aspects of human behavior is our enormous curiosity, drive for exploration. From a child feverishly examining a new toy with its hands and its eyes, to a tourist exploring a new city, to a scientist studying the brain, humans incessantly want to know. This exuberant curiosity shapes our private and social lives, and is arguably a key cognitive feature that allows our species to understand, control and alter our world. We aim to develop a novel unified biological and computational theory, which explains curiosity in the domain of visual exploration and attention as a deliberate decision motivated by learning progress. This theory will build and improve upon pioneer computational models of intrinsic motivation elaborated in developmental robotics, and be empirically evaluated in the context of visual exploration in monkeys through behavioral and brain imaging techniques. This will be the first attempt at a biological-computational framework of intrinsic motivation and perceptual exploration and their underlying cognitive mechanisms.
Inria International Partners
Informal International Partners
AL Vollmer and PY Oudeyer continued a major collaboration with Katharina Rohlfing (Univ. Paderborn, Germany) and Britta Wrede (CITEC/Univ. Bielefeld, Germany) on the study of how interactional structures help learners to acquire sensorimotor and linguistic skills in interaction with teachers, and based on the development of a new framework for conceptualizing pragmatic frames.
In the context of the Neurocuriosity project, a collaboration was initiated with Celeste Kidd, Rochester Baby Lab, Univ. Rochester, US.
In the context of the SMART-E Marie Curie Project (http://smart-e-mariecurie.eu ), Yasmin Ansari from SSSA, Pisa, Italy, is visiting the Flowers team for 3 months for a collaboration involving the study of how algorithms for active learning of inverse models can be applied to learn soft robot control.
In the context of our projects on educational robotics research and applications, Didier Roy and PY Oudeyer have collaborated with Francesco Mondada, Morgane Chevallier and Gordana Gerber (EPFL, Lausanne), and Stéphane Magnenat and Fanny Riedo (Mobsya association, Switzerland).
Collaboration with Vittorio Loreto, Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, on statistical aspects of the Language Games. (W. Schueller and P.-Y. Oudeyer)
Participation In other International Programs
F. Stulp: Collaboration with Andrej Gams and Rok Vuga of the Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Funded by the “Programme Proteus 2015” for cooperations between France and Slovenia. Project “LoCoRoS”.