[Comp-neuro] [publication and call for dialog] IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, Fall 2012

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce you the release of the latest issue of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, available at:

http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/AMDNL-V9-N2.pdf

=== Dialog initiated by D. Mareschal, with responses from L. Smith, P. Dayan, G. Westermann, A. Karmiloff-Smith

This newsletter features a stimulating dialog studying which are the adequate levels of abstraction for modeling cognitive development, and for capturing the corresponding dynamic interaction of biological and physical components at several scales of time and space. Together with an initiation and a synthesis by Denis Mareschal, the newsletter features contributions from Linda Smith, Peter Dayan, Gert Westemann and Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

== New dialog initiated by J. Weng

Then, a new dialog initiation by Juyang Weng digs into the concept of autonomy for "skull-closed" learning robots, and its implications for socially assistive robotics, echoing the April 2012 dialog column on the interaction between HRI and developmental robotics scientific approaches. In particular he calls for a detailed argumentation of the pros and cons for using emergent representations and skull-closed developmental approaches for assistive robotics applications.

Those of you interested in reacting to this dialog initiation are welcome to submit a response (contact pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr) by March 1st, 2013. The length of each response must be between 500 and 700 words (including references).

Next to the dialogs, Angelo Cangelosi, the chair of the IEEE AMD TC, provides an overview of the news and activities of the TC.

Finally, the newsletter features a call for paper for a IEEE TAMD special issue on "Microdynamics in Interaction: Capturing and Modeling Early Social Learning", edited by Gedeon Deak and Katharina Rohlfing. Deadline for paper submission is 15th january 2013. 

Information on IEEE TAMD journal: http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-autonomous-mental-development.html

Let me remind you that previous issues of the newsletter are all open-access and available at: http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/

I wish you a stimulating reading!

Best regards,

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,
Editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development
INRIA and Ensta-ParisTech, France
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
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