Er is nog weinig bekend over de samenhang tussen confabulaties (spontaan of uitgelokt) en de mate van ernst van gedragsproblematiek. In dit onderzoek is deze samenhang onderzocht bij patiënten met verschillende neuropsychiatrische ...

The French project Romeo2 develops a robot (called Romeo) that assists elderly people in their home. In the Romeo2 project, Romeo and a human talk with each other. This spoken interaction by Romeo is facilitated with a ...

In Evolutionary Robotics, simulators are used to speed up the lengthy process of evolving control structures for real world robots. The downside of this approach is that control structures evolved solely in simulation ...

Infants need to start recognizing words from continuous speech in order to learn their native language. As continuous speech does not have an equivalent to spaces in written text that clearly mark word boundaries, infants ...

Language learning is typical a sequential process, in which one language is learned after the other. There is reason to believe however that simultaneous language learning, or learning words from multiple languages for one ...

The sense of agency has been described as the experience that is sensed when we performed our own actions, such that we control events in the outside world through them. The development of sense of agency is crucial for ...

De wijk Stadshagen in Zwolle is door zijn vorm en ligging kwetsbaar voor de gevolgen van klimaatverandering, echter de inwoners (veelal ouders van jonge kinderen) lijken zich hier te weinig van bewust. Het project SensHagen ...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) attempt to mimic human neural networks in order to solve problems and carry out tasks. However, in contrast to their human counterparts ANNs cannot generally learn to perform new tasks ...

Currently, biological constructs capable of describing psychiatric disorders in a dimensional way, rather than a categorical one, are in need in clinical psychiatry. Pattern recognition techniques have offered a lot of ...

Vampire bats manage to live longer by donating to fellow roost mates and trusting that they will, in the future, return the favor. I have modelled this interaction by creating a biological plausible, decentralised trust ...