title: The development of embodied cognition: six lessons from babies.
abstract: The embodiment hypothesis is the idea that intelligence emerges in the interaction of an agent with an environment and as a result of sensorimotor activity. We offer six lessons for developing embodied intelligent agents suggested by research in developmental psychology. We argue that starting as a baby grounded in a physical, social, and linguistic world is crucial to the development of the flexible and inventive intelligence that characterizes humankind.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. smith4@Indiana.edu
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gasser
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000502:physiology*