creators_name: Schlesinger, Matthew editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Demiris, Yiannis editors_name: Marom, Yuval editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2003-10-04 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:04 metadata_visibility: show title: A lesson from robotics: Modeling infants as autonomous agents ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-art-intel full_text_status: public keywords: autonomous agents, computational model, embodiment, processeseye-movement, infant cognition abstract: While computational models are playing an increasingly important role in developmental psychology, at least one lesson from robotics is still being learned: modeling epigenetic processes often requires simulating an embodied, autonomous organism. This paper first contrasts prevailing models of infant cognition with an agent-based approach. A series of infant studies by Baillargeon (1986; Baillargeon & DeVos, 1991) is described, and an eye-movement model is then used to simulate infants' visual activity in this study. I conclude by describing three behavioral predictions of the eyemovement model, and discussing the implications of this work for infant cognition research. date: 2002 date_type: published volume: 94 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 133-140 refereed: TRUE citation: Schlesinger, Matthew (2002) A lesson from robotics: Modeling infants as autonomous agents. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/2525/1/Schlesinger.pdf