Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview

Gianluca Baldassarre; Tom Stafford; Marco Mirolli; Peter Redgrave; Richard M Ryan; Andrew Barto

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00985

Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview

Front Psychol. 2014 Sep 9:5:985. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00985. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Gianluca Baldassarre¹, Tom Stafford², Marco Mirolli¹, Peter Redgrave², Richard M Ryan³, Andrew Barto⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Computational Embodied Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council Rome, Italy.
² Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK.
³ Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester River, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts, USA.

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Keywords: autonomous robotics; brain and behavior; computational models; cumulative learning and development; intrinsic motivations; novelty and surprise; reinforcement learning; review.