Frédéric Kaplan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Frédéric Kaplan is involved.

Articles

Kaplan, Frédéric and Verena V. Hafner 2006 The challenges of joint attention Epigenetic robotics, Metta, Giorgio and Luc Berthouze (eds.), pp. 135–169 | Article

This article discusses the concept of joint attention and the different skills underlying its development. Research in developmental psychology clearly states that the development of skills to understand, manipulate and coordinate attentional behavior plays a pivotal role for imitation, social… read more

Steels, Luc and Frédéric Kaplan 2001 AIBO’s first words: The social learning of language and meaning The Evolution of Grounded Communication, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 3–32 | Article

This paper explores the hypothesis that language communication in its very first stage is bootstrapped in a social learning process under the strong influence of culture. A concrete framework for social learning has been developed based on the notion of a language game. Autonomous robots have been… read more