CHRIS - PI : Peter Ford Dominey

Peter Ford Dominey is a Research Director with the CNRS in Lyon France. He completed the BA at Cornell University in 1984 in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. In 1989 and 1993 respectively he obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California, developing neural network models of sensorimotor sequence learning, including the first simulations of the role of dopamine in sensorimotor associative learning. From ...

The goal of my Phd is to create a programm for a human-robot intercation (HRI).The main characteristics of it are:* The robot has to learn via the interaction with the user.* The user is a naive personn, no computer science knowledge is necessary.* The robot has to create new representations for each behavior.* The user can reuse these representations.* The interaction has to be as fluently as possible.In order to achieve this aim, I don't adopt a classical AI point of view but rather "developmental ...

My main research interests are integrative models of language comprehension, and the neurophysiology of speech perception and speech comprehension.Theme 1: Integrative models of language comprehension: from human brain to humanoid roboticsMy main line of research consists first in the elaboration of theoretical models of human language comprehension based on the neurophysiology of the human brain  and second in the validation of predictions drawn from these models in neurophysiological (ERPs) ...

As a member of Dominey's Team, I work on improving how robots can cooperate with humans.

How can we modelise the cooperation ability, what is the goal of an action or a task and how to understand it ? These are some questions which I try to answer. My main approach is to define and use neural network based models in order to mimic various cognitives functions.

By linking all these models to a high level model of cognition, I hope to be able to build the ground of a new theory ...

My program of research brings together principles from the strong tradition of cognitive linguistics, the emerging framework of embodied cognition, and pioneering work in humanoid robotics to better understand how we comprehend described events. Our team employs a methodical approach in which (1) the behavior in question is first characterized, (2) the mechanisms that implement that behavior are identified, and (3) this knowledge is used to create an artificial system (derived ...

Jocelyne Ventre-Dominey is Senior Researcher at INSERM-U846 in Lyon, France. She received her PhD at University Claude Bernard in Lyon in 1982 studying the implication of cortex in visual vestibular functions in the cat and macaque. During her thesis, she described for the first time the role of the posterior cerebral cortex in vestibular function and its anatomical correlates as direct projections from cortex to the vestibular nuclei. During her 2 years ...