Constructive clarification of cognitive development mechanism: Learning what to learn now

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25330260
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: Kyoto Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Oka Natsuki 京都工芸繊維大学, 情報工学・人間科学系, 教授 (20362585)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 学習の学習 / 認知発達 / 言語獲得 / 機能語 / ヒューマンエージェントインタラクション / 機械学習 / 人工知能

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although it is within the scope of very small tasks, by learning the correspondence between content words and their meanings in modules and concurrently learning how to combine outputs from each module according to function words, we showed that the robot can learn motions and internal processing, which contains what to learn, according to the meaning of the dialogue partner's utterance. Though this is the result of giving knowledge to realize it, it means that the first step of the self-creation of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge to promote acquisition of next knowledge, has been realized.

Free Research Field

認知科学