ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2020
Developing Self-Awareness in Robots via Inner Speech.
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- Ctrl + Alt + Inner Speech: A Verbal-Cognitive Scaffold (VCS) Model of Pathways to Computational Thinking.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Unlocking practical wisdom through the inner voice of robots.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness: Associations between Stable and Transitory Levels of Evidence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Influence of agent's self-disclosure on human empathy.PloS one · 2023Article
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- A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- From Affordances to Abstract Words: The Flexibility of Sensorimotor Grounding.Brain sciences · 2021Review
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- What robots want? Hearing the inner voice of a robot.iScience · 2021Article
- Automation Inner Speech as an Anthropomorphic Feature Affecting Human Trust: Current Issues and Future Directions.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
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Abstract
The experience of inner speech is a common one. Such a dialogue accompanies the introspection of mental life and fulfills essential roles in human behavior, such as self-restructuring, self-regulation, and re-focusing on attentional resources. Although the underpinning of inner speech is mostly investigated in psychological and philosophical fields, the research in robotics generally does not address such a form of self-aware behavior. Existing models of inner speech inspire computational tools to provide a robot with this form of self-awareness. Here, the widespread psychological models of inner speech are reviewed, and a cognitive architecture for a robot implementing such a capability is outlined in a simplified setup.
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