Can Body Language Shape Body Image?

@inproceedings{Steels2008CanBL,
  title={Can Body Language Shape Body Image?},
  author={Luc L. Steels and Michael Spranger},
  booktitle={IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life},
  year={2008}
}
One of the central themes in autonomous robot research concerns the question how visual images of body movements by others can be interpreted and related to one’s own body movements and to language describing these body movements. The discovery of mirror neurons has shown that there are brain circuits which become active both in the perception and the re-enactment of bodily gestures, although it is so far unclear how these circuits can form, i.e. how neurons become mirror neurons. We report… 
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