We explore two controversial hypotheses through robotic implementation: (1) Processes involved in recognition and response are tightly coupled both in their operation and epigenesis; and (2) processes involved in symbol emergence should respect the integrity of recognition and response while exploiting the periodicity of biological motion. To that end, this paper proposes a method of recognizin...

The space of bio-inspired hardware can be partitioned along three axes: phylogeny, ontogeny, and epigenesis. We refer to this as the POE model. Our Embryonics (for embryonic electronics) project is situated along the ontogenetic axis of the POE model and is inspired by the processes of molecular biology and by the embryonic development of living beings. We will describe the architecture of mult...

Caspar Friedrich Wolff [4] is most famous for his 1759 doctoral dissertation, Theoria Generationis [5], in which he described embryonic development in both plants and animals as a process involving layers of cells, thereby refuting the accepted theory of preformation?the idea that organisms develop as a result of the unfolding of form that is somehow present from the outset, as in a homunculus....

A computational model of the origins of syllables systems is presented : a society of robotic agents endowed with realistic motor, perceptual and cognitive apparati is shown to build from scratch shared syllable systems in a decentralized manner. Furthermo re, these systems share many structural properties with those of human languages. Résumé Un modèle opérationel de l'origine des systèmes syl...

Pointing has long been considered to be a uniquely human, universal, and biologically based gesture. However, pointing emerges spontaneously, without explicit training, in captive chimpanzees. Because pointing is commonplace in captive chimpanzees and virtually absent in wild chimpanzees, and because both captive and wild chimpanzees are sampled from the same gene pool, pointing by captive apes...

Infants' own activities create and actively select their learning experiences. Here we review recent models of embodied information seeking and curiosity-driven learning and show that these mechanisms have deep implications for development and evolution. We discuss how these mechanisms yield self-organized epigenesis with emergent ordered behavioral and cognitive developmental stages. We descri...

Aim. To justify the peculiarities of teaching basics evolution and ecology in a medical university to ensure high level general biological training achieve orientation first-year students. Methods. Study analysis typical working programs, monographs, textbooks, didactic materials methodical recommendations from discipline "Medical Biology" universities. Results. In conditions reforming modern e...