ArticlePsychological research2022
A robot that counts like a child: a developmental model of counting and pointing.
Article in Psychological research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Discerning Quantity: Numerosity in Two Embodied Machine Learning Agents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Active Inference for Learning and Development in Embodied Neuromorphic Agents.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Concrete constraints on abstract concepts-editorial.Psychological research · 2022Article
- A Database for Learning Numbers by Visual Finger Recognition in Developmental Neuro-Robotics.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this paper, a novel neuro-robotics model capable of counting real items is introduced. The model allows us to investigate the interaction between embodiment and numerical cognition. This is composed of a deep neural network capable of image processing and sequential tasks performance, and a robotic platform providing the embodiment-the iCub humanoid robot. The network is trained using images from the robot's cameras and proprioceptive signals from its joints. The trained model is able to count a set of items and at the same time points to them. We investigate the influence of pointing on the counting process and compare our results with those from studies with children. Several training approaches are presented in this paper, all of them use pre-training routine allowing the network to gain the ability of pointing and number recitation (from 1 to 10) prior to counting training. The impact of the counted set size and distance to the objects are investigated. The obtained results on counting performance show similarities with those from human studies.
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