ICDL 2004 Preliminary Schedule

Wed October 20

8:00-12:00 Registration Booth.

8:30-12:00 Tutorials

· Neuroscience

· Machine Learning

· Developmental Psychology

· Autonomous Mental Development

1:15-1:30 Commencement/Welcome.

1:30-2:15 Invited Talk: Pietro Perona

Session1: Social Systems

2:15-3:05 Paper presentations

Social Dynamics: The Voice of Power and Influence.

Alex Pentland

Neural correlates of social referencing.

Leslie J. Carver

3:05-3:25 Coffee Break/Snacks

3:25-5:05 Paper presentations

The perception of direct gaze in human infants.

Teresa Farroni, Mark H. Johnson, Gergely Csibra

To Care or Not to Care: Analyzing the Caregiver in a Computational

Gaze Following Framework.

Christof Teuscher, Jochen Triesch

Joint attention between a humanoid robot and users in imitation game.

Masato Ito and Jun Tani

Learning to manipulate objects: A quantitative evaluation of Motionese.

Katharina J. Rohlfing, Jannik Fritsch and Britta Wrede

5:05-7:00 Reception/Poster Session A

Thursday October 21

8:30-9:15 Invited Talk: Dana Ballard

Session 2: Reinforcement and Neuromodulation

9:15 - 10:30 Paper Presentations

Learning by Imitation, Reinforcement and Verbal Rules in Problem Solving Tasks.

Frederic Dandurand, Melissa Bowen, Thomas R. Shultz

Caregivers and the Education of the Mirror System

Patricia Zukow-Goldring and Michael Arbib

An Emergent Framework for Self-Motivation in Developmental Robotics.

James B. Marshall, Douglas Blank, Lisa Meeden

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break/Snacks

10:50-12:30 Paper presentations

Intrinsically Motivated Learning of Hierarchical Collections of Skills.

Andrew G. Barto, Satinder Singh, Nuttapong Chentanez

An imaging study on human action selection using hierarchical rules.

Hidefumi Funakoshi, Wako Yoshida, Shin Ishii

MESO: Perceptual Memory to Support Online Learning in Adaptive Software.

E. P. Kasten and P. K. McKinley

Neuromodulation and open-ended development.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y.

12:30-2:00 Lunch and poster preview

2:00-2:45 Invited Talk: Jay McCLelland

Session 3: Language Acquisition

2:45-3:35 Paper Presentations.

A Model of Frame and Verb Compliance in Language Acquisition.

Rutvik Desai

On-Line Cumulative Learning of Hierarchical Sparse n-grams.

Karl Pfleger

3:35-3:55 Coffee Break (w/snack)

3:55-5:10 Paper Presentations

A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues.

Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard

On Language and Age of Acquisition.

Arturo E. Hernandez

Developmental Stages of Perception and Language Acquisition in a Physically Grounded Robot.

Peter Ford Dominey, Jean-David Boucher

5:10-7:00 Poster Session B/Demos and hors douvres

Friday October 22

Focus Day: Plasticity, Development, and the Social Brain

8:30-9:15 Invited Talk: Eric Courchesne

Session 4: Neuroscience & Social Systems

9:15-10:05 Paper presentations

Small-world Network Properties and the Emergence of Social Cognition:

Evidence from Functional Studies of Autism.

Matthew K Belmonte Simon Baron-Cohen

The emotional brain in autism : cerebral correlates of abnormal explicit

processing of emotional information.

B.Wicker, B.Hubert, B.Gepner, C.Deruelle

10:05-10:25 Break

10:25 - 11:10 Invited Talk: Bill Greenough

Session 5: Perceptual Learning and Development

11:10-12:00 SESSION Paper presentations

Project PRAKASH: Development of object perception following long-term

Visual deprivation.

Pawan Sinha

Four Blobs: "Y" or Face?

Lingyun Zhang Garrison W. Cottrell

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30 -2:15 Invited talk: Karen Dobkins

2:15-3:30 Paper presentations

Using a Robot to Reexamine Looking Time Experiments.

Andrew Lovett, Brian Scassellati

Color perception in sensorimotor theory, or what do we really perceive?

David Philipona, J. Kevin O'Regan, and Olivier J.-M. D. Coenen

Explaining Eye Movements During Learning as an Active Sampling Process.

Jonathan Nelson, Gary Cottrell, Javier R. Movellan

Break: 3:30-3:50

Session 6: Binding

3:50 - 4:40 SESSION Paper presentations

Cross-anchoring for binding tactile and visual sensations via unique

association through self-perception.

Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Koh Hosoda, and Minoru Asada

Object recognition, Adaptive Behavior and Learning in Brain-Based Devices.

Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Douglas A. Nitz, Gerald M. Edelman

4:40-5:25 Invited Talk: Terrence Sejnowski

5:25-5:40 Closing remarks

Saturday October 23

8:30:10:00 Torrey Pines Hike

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Poster Session A: Wednesday 5:00-7:00

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Vision

Neural processing of facial expressions: a developmental approach.

Tobias Grossmann & Tricia Striano

An explanation of complex cell development by information separation.

Akira Date, Koji Kurata

Information maximization in face processing.

Marian Stewart Bartlett and Javier R. Movellan

Finding People by Contingency: An Infomax Controller Approach.

Javier R. Movellan

Texture Segmentation in 2D vs. 3D: Did 3D Developmentally Precede 2D?

Authors: Sejong Oh and Yoonsuck Choe

Social Robots

Communicative behavior to the android robot in human infants.

Itakura, S., Kanaya, N., Shimada, M., Minato, T., & Ishiguro, H.

Attention detection and manipulation between autonomous four-legged robots.

Kaplan, F., Hafner, V. and Whyte, A

Can Robotic Brains be Social? Scientists Caught Back-peddling.

Colin T. Schmidt

Facial Expression in Social Interactions: Automatic Evaluation of

Human-Robot Interaction.

G.C. Littlewort, M.S. Bartlett, I. Fasel, J. Chenu, T. Kanda, H. Ishiguro,

J.R. Movellan

RUBI: A Robotic Platform for Real-time Social Interaction.

Bret Fortenberry, Joel Chenu, Javier R. Movellan

A Development Approach for Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot.

Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Social Systems

Cognitive foundations of conventions in social interaction.

Dale J. Barr

How children understand other's belief before they develop

attentional flexibility?

Yusuke Moriguchi and Shoji Itakura

Young children's understanding of perception and false belief:

Hiding objects from others.

Manuel Sprung & Martin Doherty

Caregivers and the Education of the Mirror System

Patricia Zukow-Goldring and Michael Arbib

Are you synching what I'm synching? Modeling infants' real-time detection

of audiovisual contingencies between face and voice.

George Hollich, Eric J. Mislivec, Nathan A. Helder, & Christopher G. Prince

Attention-sharing in human infants from 5 to 10 months of age in naturalistic conditions

Gedeon Deak & Yuri Wakabayashi

Kinesthetic-visual matching and consciousness of self and other: How social

minds are possible.

Robert W. Mitchell

Learning gaze following in space: a computational model.

Boris Lau and Jochen Triesch

Motion Recognition and Generation for Humanoid based on Visual-Somatic

Field Mapping.

Masaki Ogino, Shigeo Matsuyama, Jun'ichiro Ooga, and Minoru Asada

EEG dynamics during self-produced emotion feeling-states.

Julie Onton, Scott Makeig

Learning to Recognize and Reproduce Abstract Actions from Proprioception.

Karl F. MacDorman, Rawichote Chalodhorn, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Mu rhythm modulation during intentional and unintentional

human and robot actions.

Shenk, L.M., Jacoby, B.P., McCleery, J.P., Ramachandran, V.S., & Pineda, J.A.

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Poster Session B: Thursday 5:00-7:00

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Developmental Disorders

Pathological brain growth patterns in Autism, and catastrophic interference in establishing long-distance connectivity

John D. Lewis, Eric Courchesne, and Jeffrey L. Elman

Development of face processing in autism: A look into spatial frequencies and the inversion effect

C. Deruelle, C. Rondan, B. Wicker

Pathological brain growth patterns in Autism, and catastrophic interference

in establishing long-distance connectivity.

John D. Lewis, Eric Courchesne, and Jeffrey L. Elman

A toy-like robot in the playroom for children with developmental disorder.

Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Yuri Yasuda, Daisuke Kosugi

Comparing emotional expressions using eyes or mouths: a perceptual

advantage in autism?

A W Hendriks, P J Benson, M Jonkers, S Rietberg

Speech and Language

Machine Emotional Intelligence: A Novel Method for Analysis of Spoken Affect.

Irina Gorodnitsky and Claudia Lainscsek

Perceptual Learning of Directon Discrimination Improves the Entire Spectrum

of Reading Deficits in Children

Teri Lawton

Learning and Development, Modeling, Algorithms and Architectures

Cognitive Development in Context: Learning to Pay Attention

Petra Bjorne, Christian Balkenius

Developmental Connectivity Schemes and Their Performance Implications.

A. Felch, R.H. Granger

Modeling Cognitive Development in the Human Brain.

L. Andrew Coward

Why do animals make their play more difficult?

Stan Kuczaj

Solving Complex Problems Using Hierarchically Stacked Neural Networks

Modeled on Behavioral Developmental.

Michael Lamport Commons and Myra Sturgeon White

Simulating Development in a Real Robot.

Gabriel Gomez, Max Lungarella, Peter Eggenberger Hotz, Kojiro Matsushita,

and Rolf Pfeifer

A Theory of Developmental Architecture.

Juyang Weng

Exact Inference in Robots Using Topographical Uncertainty Maps.

Josh Susskind, John Hershey, Javier Movellan

Cumulative Learning of Hierarchical Skills.

Pat Langley and Seth Rogers

A Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Cognitive Development.

Hector Jasso

Sparse Regression via the Winner-Take-All Networks.

Nan Zhang, Shuqing Zeng and Juyang Weng

RobotCub: An Open Research Initiative in Embodied Cognition.

G. Sandini, G. Metta, D. Vernon