Second Year Review

Technical Annex (updated)

Review Documents:

Periodic Progress Report No: 2

Annex to the Periodic Progress Report

Documents prepared for the review meeting:

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SLIDES Used at the review: PDF format and powerpoint format

Deliverables:

	D1.6	Management report
	D1.7+D1.8	Periodic progress report No.2. See above
		Annex to the D1.7+D1.8
	D2.5	Architecture of the learning artifact
	D2.6	Robot testing and technology assessment (postponed)
	D3.4	Modeling of mirror neurons representation
	D4.5	Final results of the biological experiments (postponed)

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Published papers:

	P. Fitzpatrick and G. Metta. Grounding Vision Through Experimental Manipulation. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 361:1811, pp. 2165-2185. 2003.
	G. Metta and P. Fitzpatrick. Early Integration of Vision and Manipulation. In Adaptive Behavior special issue on Epigenetic Robotics. Vol 11 Issue 2 (2003) pp. 109-128
	P.Fitzpatrick, G.Metta, L.Natale, S.Rao, and G.Sandini. Learning About Objects Through Action: Initial Steps Towards Artificial Cognition, In 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). May 12-17, 2003 Taipei, Taiwan.
	L. Natale, S. Rao, G. Sandini. Learning to act on objects. 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV). Tübingen (Germany), November 22-24, 2002.
	Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Sajit Rao, Giulio Sandini. What am I doing? Initial steps toward artificial cognition. In 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). May 12-17, 2003 Taipei, Taiwan.
	L. Natale, G. Metta, and G. Sandini. Development of Auditory-evoked Reflexes: Visuo-acoustic Cues Integration in a Binocular Head. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 39/2 pp. 87-106, 2002.
	Craighero L. Bello A., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G., Hand action preparation influences the responses to hand pictures, Neuropsychologia, Amsterdam, 2002, 40: 492-502.
	Gallese V., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Rizzolatti G. Action representation and the inferior parietal lobule. In: Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action - Attention and Performance - Volume XIX. Eds. Prinz W. e Hommel B. (New York: Oxford University Press) 2002.
	Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V. From mirror neurons to imitation: facts and speculations. In: The Imitative Mind Development, Evolution and Brain Bases. Eds. Meltzoff A.N., Prinz W. (Cambridge: CUP (Cambridge studies in cognitive perceptual development), 2002.
	Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L. The mirror-neuron system and action recognition. In Higher-order motor disorders: from Neuroanatomy and Neurobiology to Clinical Neurology. Eds. Freund H.J., Jeannerod M., Hallett M. (New York: Oxford University Press), (2004, in press).
	Fadiga L., Craighero L. New insights on sensorimotor integration: From hand action to speech perception, Brain and Cognition (2003, in press).
	Fadiga L., Craighero L. Electrophysiology of action representation. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, (2004, in press).
	Rizzolatti G., Craighero L. The mirror-neuron system. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, (2004, in press).
	Fadiga L., Craighero L., Buccino G., Rizzolatti G. Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: a TMS study. European Journal of Neuroscience. Vol. 15. pp 399-402, 2002.
	Raquel Vassallo, José Santos-Victor, Hans-Jorg Schnebeli, Using Motor Representations for Topological Mapping and Navigation, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2002.
	Manuel Cabido Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Visual Transformations in Gesture Imitation: what you see is what you do, ICRA - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taiwan, September 2003.
	Manuel Cabido Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Motor Representations for Hand Gesture Recognition and Imitation. IROS Workshop on Robot Programming by Demonstration, Las Vegas, SA, October 31st, 2003.
	Rosander, R. and von Hofsten, C. (2003) Infants' emerging ability to represent object motion. Cognition, (in press).
	Gredebäck, G. and von Hofsten, C. (2003) Infants' evolving representation of moving objects between 6 and 12 months of age. Infancy, (in press).
	von Hofsten, C. (2003) The development of prospective control in looking. To be published in J. Lockman and J. Rieser (Eds.) Action as an Organizer of Perception and Cognition during Learning and Development. Minnesota symposium on Child Psychology.

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