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Mirror neurons are premotor neurons that are considered to play a role in goal-directed actions, action understanding and even social cognition. As one of the promising research areas in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and cognitive physiology, understanding mirror neurons in a social cognition context, whether with neural or computational models, is still an open issue [5]. In this paper, we mainly focus on the action understanding aspect of mirror neurons, which can be regarded as a fundamental function of social cooperation and social cognition. Our proposed initial architecture is to learn a simulation of the walking pattern of a humanoid robot and to predict where the robot is heading on the basis of its previous walking trajectory.
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Zhong, J., Weber, C., Wermter, S. (2011). Robot Trajectory Prediction and Recognition Based on a Computational Mirror Neurons Model. In: Honkela, T., Duch, W., Girolami, M., Kaski, S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2011. ICANN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21738-8_43
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