Social inclusion of robots depends on the way a robot is presented to observers
Research has shown that people evaluate others according to specific categories. As this phenomenon seems to transfer from human–human to human–robot interactions, in the present study we focused on (1) the degree of prior knowledge about technology, in ...
Roselli Cecilia +2 more
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Six month durability of targeted cognitive training supplemented with social cognition exercises in schizophrenia. [PDF]
Background:Deficits in cognition, social cognition, and motivation are significant predictors of poor functional outcomes in schizophrenia. Evidence of durable benefit following social cognitive training is limited.
Biagianti, Bruno +10 more
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Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?
In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows ...
Serena Marchesi +7 more
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Upper limb exercise with physical and virtual robots: Visual sensitivity affects task performance
We investigated the influence of visual sensitivity on the performance of an imitation task with the robot R1 in its virtual and physical forms. Virtual and physical embodiments offer different sensory experience to the users.
Chevalier Pauline +6 more
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of sensory sensitivity during robot-assisted training for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
P. Chevalier +5 more
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Minds Online: The Interface between Web Science, Cognitive Science, and the Philosophy of Mind [PDF]
Alongside existing research into the social, political and economic impacts of the Web, there is a need to study the Web from a cognitive and epistemic perspective.
Clowes, Robert William +2 more
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Increasing academic participation among students from ethnic-racial underrepresented groups in STEM yields societal benefits including ameliorating economic ramifications of the labor shortages in STEM, improving scientific innovation, and providing ...
Sophie Kuchynka +3 more
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Sensitizing a Gifted Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder towards Social Cognition: From Assessment to Treatment [PDF]
Social cognition difficulties are well documented in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This clinical case study reports on social cognition assessment and treatment of a gifted child, SC (9 years), with ASD and an extraordinarily high ...
Levi, Gabriel +3 more
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The stereotype content model and mental disorders: Distinct perceptions of warmth and competence
This work investigates the perception of eight different mental disorders within the Stereotype Content Model (SCM). The presented study (N = 297) includes a sample representative for the German population in terms of age and gender.
Ramona C. Allstadt Torras +2 more
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The role of language, social cognition, and social skill in the functional social outcomes of young adolescents with and without a history of SLI [PDF]
Social skill and language are known to relate, not least in the example of those with specific language impairment (SLI). However, most of the research examining this trend has been conducted on young primary school age children and the nature of the ...
Botting, N., Conti-Ramsden, G.
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