Previous studies on autism have shown a lack of motor anticipation in children and adults with autism. As part of a programme of research into early detection of autism, we focussed on an everyday situation: spoon-feeding. We hypothesize that an anticipation deficit may be found very early on by observing whether the baby opens his or her mouth in anticipation of the spoon's approach. The study...

The flexibility present in a job shop is an important determinant of the future success of the shop, since it increases the ability to deal with the changes a job shop is faced with in a dynamic environment. The presence of idle-time in a job shop schedule contributes considerably to this flexibility. By introducing an anticipation factor that preserves idletime in the scheduling process more f...

This paper, adopting the recursive multiple-priors utility, studies the optimal consumption and portfolio choice in a Merton-style model with anticipation when there is a difference between ambiguity and risk. The fundamental issue is what the effects of ambiguity and anticipation on the investor’s behavior are. In the case of a logarithmic felicity function, the paper also shows that no hedgin...

The expectation of being rewarded for one’s actions is crucial for motivation and goal-directed behaviour. Imaging studies have identified the dopaminergic reward system, especially the nucleus accumbens, as the underlying brain structure for the anticipation of rewards. Dysfunction of this system is the central problem in a variety of psychiatric disorders leading to abnormal brain activation ...

Rats, confined either to Skinner boxes or to activity wheels, were fed at regularly scheduled feeding times which were either diurnal, i.e., every 24 hr., or a-diurnal, i.e., every 19 or 29 hr. Even though the a-diurnal Ss had been born, reared, and tested under 19or 29-hr, schedules to provide further support for the anticipation of feeding, they failed to show such an effect. The fact that th...

This chapter claims that analogy-making, in particular the structural mapping ability is a very basic mechanism in human cognition and thus, it is also a basic mechanism for anticipation. A number of various everyday situations are analyzed that involve anticipation by analogy. Then the role of analogy is discussed in computational term to analyze why using analogy ensures flexible behavior and...

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Robots that display anticipatory motion provide their human partners with greater time to respond in interactive tasks because human partners are aware of robot intent earlier. We create anticipatory motion autonomously from a single motion exemplar by extracting hand and body symbols that communicate motion intent and moving them earlier in the motion. We validate that our algorithm extracts t...

Simulation and application (non-simulation) models used in man-made systems are more and more sophisticated and intellectually demanded to comprehension. To cope with the growing complexity at one hand and capability for comprehension on the other hand, it is necessary to exploit powerful facilities, in the sense of modeling and design, to achieve desired goals. This paper deals with the simula...