Cognitive scientists of the embodied cognition tradition have been providing evidence that a large part of our creative reasoning and problemsolving processes are carried out by means of conceptual metaphor and blending, grounded on our bodily experience with the world. In this talk I shall aim at fleshing out a mathematical model that has been proposed in the last decades for expressing and ex...

Recently, researchers have been debating whether infants' selective imitative learning is primarily based on sensorimotor processes (e.g., motor resonance through action perception) or whether inferential processes such as teleological reasoning (i.e., reasoning about the efficiency of others' actions) predominantly explain selective imitation in infancy. The current study directly investigated...

We develop a general framework for inverse optimal control that distinguishes between rationalizing demonstrated behavior and imitating inductively inferred behavior. This enables learning for more general imitative evaluation measures and differences between the capabilities of the demonstrator and those of the learner (i.e., differences in embodiment). Our formulation takes the form of a zero...

The crux of the debate between ourselves and Bertenthal and Scheutz (2013) (B&S) is whether imitative compatibility effects reflect the operation of specialized imitationrelated mechanisms or instead arise from the same associative learning processes thought to underlie spatial compatibility effects. Our conclusions were, and remain, more modest than B&S imply. We do not claim that our model ru...

design precedents are available instances of architectural projects by high profile architects and designers, which can be studied and analyzed as knowledge resources for a given project. developing a design knowledge based on a critical study of precedents will be referred to in this paper as precedent-based knowledge. in all stages of designing, design reasoning based on precedents can save d...