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																		Object-level scene descriptions and attention in visual search
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Capabilities and consequences of recursive, hierarchical information processing in visual systems
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Intelligent kinematic problem solving
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		From understanding learners’ adaptive motivation and emotion to designing social learning companions
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Knowledge-augmented face perception
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Multimodal Interaction and Communication
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Anticipation, prediction, and behavioral reliability in social interactions
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Dynamical Collective Adaptation and Learning
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Learning of intelligent swarm behavior
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Architectural design principles for intelligence: Modularity vs Integrity
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Efficient Multi-task Deep Learning
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Dexterous and sensorized soft robotic hands
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Methodology of the synthetic approach
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Developing exploration behavior
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Ecologically rational strategy selection
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Control models of perceptual stability
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Mice learning in social interaction
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		The collective dynamics underlying personal and social information integration
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in collective estimation
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Learning to manipulate from demonstration (to escape from a room)
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Hierarchical modularized vision system for perception-action loops
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Analyzing human physical reasoning and strategy exploration on physical puzzles
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Social responsiveness and its effects on learning in human-human and human-robot interaction
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Shepherding behaviour in predator-prey interactions
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Weighing personal and social information in cooperative problem solving
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Differentiable interconnected recursive estimation as a principle of intelligence
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Active tracking using bioinspired event-based vision – Towards improving interpretability of individual and collective behavior
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Physical manipulation planning with differentiable closed-loop manipulation primitives
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Self-organised criticality in animal collectives
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Behavioral contagion in human and artificial multi-agent systems
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Generating robust and general real-world behavior by exploiting regularities at multiple levels of abstraction
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Efficient model learning from data with partially incorrect labels
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Modeling neurogenesis for continuous learning
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Adaptivity in learner-teacher interaction
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Navigating the explore-exploit trade off in collective search
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Evolution of collective cognition through individual-level selection
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Internal and External Visual Information Sampling Using Eye-Movements and Overt Attention in Dynamic Scenes 
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		From exploring basic maze elements to algorithmic rules for the escape room
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Observational learning developing humans and artificial agents
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Neural representations for lifelong learning
																		
																	   
																	 
																
																
																															
															
																	
																
																
																															
															
																	
																	  
																		
																		Investigations of Social Intelligence