Call for Papers
Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research
on EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS
submissions are due by July 1st, 2004
Epigenetic robotics denotes a new field of research resulting from the
mutual rapproachement of developmental psychology and robotics, with a focus
on the prolonged epigenetic process through which increasingly more complex
cognitive structures emerge in the system as a result of interactions with
the physical and social environment
Epigenetic robotics includes basic research goals of interdisciplinary
integration between developmental psychology and robotics. Psychological
theory and empirical evidence should be used to inform epigenetic robotic
models, and these models should be used as theoretical tools to make
experimental predictions in developmental psychology.
This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art research,
including theoretical work as well as empirical/experimental studies
of both natural and artificial systems. Papers drawing inspiration
from, and contributing back to, developmental psychology will be
particularly appropriate.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- the biological basis of development
- the role of social, organizational, and cultural embedding in development
- the relevance of sensorimotor activity for development
- the role of motivation, emotions and value systems in development
- the development of concepts, consciousness and self-awareness, emotion,
imitation, intentionality, intersubjectivity, joint attention, learning,
motivation, non-verbal and verbal communication, self, sensorimotor
schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning,
social relationships, social understanding, and value systems
- the interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure,
and experience
- related issues from human and nonhuman empirical studies
- related issues in robotics and embodied systems
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors intending to submit are encouraged to contact the Guest Editor
(address below) as soon as possible to discuss paper ideas and suitability
for this issue.
Submit manuscripts to the Special Issue Guest Editor by email with "CSR
submission" in the subject line.
Dr Luc Berthouze
Neuroscience Research Institute (AIST),
Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel.: +81 29 861 5369
Fax.: +81 29 861 5841
Formatting instructions can be found at the journal's web site:
http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/journal.html
IMPORTANT DATES:
July 1st, 2004 - submission deadline
September 1st, 2004 - notification of authors
November 1st, 2004 - revised papers due
End of 2004 - special issue appears
Up-to-date information will also be available at
http://staff.aist.go.jp/luc.berthouze/CSR.html
THE JOURNAL:
The Cognitive Systems Research journal (editors-in-chief: Ron Sun, Vasant
Honavar and Gregg Oden) is published by Elsevier Science, in both print and
electronic form (see http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/journal.html).
