Infants' own activities create and actively select their learning experiences. Here we review
recent models of embodied information seeking and curiosity‐driven learning and show that …

Intelligent animals devote much time and energy to exploring and obtaining information, but
the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We review recent developments on this …

Intrinsically motivated spontaneous exploration is a key enabler of autonomous developmental
learning in human children. It enables the discovery of skill repertoires through autotelic …

In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated ‘question-and-answer’ strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of ‘…

Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
considers how spoken language first emerged. He presents an original and integrated view of …

Exploratory activities seem to be intrinsically rewarding for children and crucial for their
cognitive development. Can a machine be endowed with such an intrinsic motivation system? …

The speech code is a vehicle of language: it defines a set of forms used by a community to
carry information. Such a code is necessary to support the linguistic interactions that allow …

Intrinsic motivation, the causal mechanism for spontaneous exploration and curiosity, is a
central concept in developmental psychology. It has been argued to be a crucial mechanism …

This paper presents algorithms that allow a robot to express its emotions by modulating the
intonation of its voice. They are very simple and efficiently provide life-like speech thanks to …