Posture Critical in Early Learning

July 4, 2017 Scott Joy

A robot is taught to distinguish between two objects as part of the research on the effect of body posture on infant learning. | Photo by University of Plymouth

Summary

Using both robots and infants, a cognitive scientist and collaborators have found that posture is critical in the early stages of acquiring new knowledge.

This study offers a new approach to studying the way “objects of cognition,” such as words or memories of physical objects, are tied to the position of the body. The new insights stem from the field of epigenetic robotics, in which researchers are working to create robots that learn and develop like children, through interaction with their environment.
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