Le troisième séminaire du Pôle est proposé par le département Parole et Cognition du laboratoire Gipsa-lab qui vous invite à rencontrer Pierre-Yves OUDEYER de l'INRIA Bordeaux, sur le thème de l'origine du langage, acquisition du langage chez les humains et les robots. Il se déroulera le jeudi 19 décembre 2013 à Gipsa-lab (salle B314) à 13h30. Il est rappelé que ces séminaires sont proposés comme temps forts de la formation des étudiants du Master Sciences Cognitives qui seront invités à échanger avec l'intervenant.

Pierre-Yves OUDEYER is research director at Inria, heading the Flowers team. He was previously a permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years (1999-2007). He studies mechanisms by which humans and robots can progressively discover their bodies, and learn how to interact with their physical and social environment. In particular, He studies the developmental processes which guide organisms to acquire and expand continuously a large and cumulative repertoires of skills across their lifespan. This includes mechanisms of curiosity-driven learning, imitation, multimodal statistical inference, body maturation and self-organization. Of particular interest to him is the formation of repertoires of sensorimotor and interaction skills as well as their relation with the acquisition and evolution of languages.