Search results for " animal communication"
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Mammary odor cues and pheromones: mammalian infant-directed communication about maternal state, mammae, and milk
2010
International audience; Neonatal mammals are exposed to an outstandingly powerful selective pressure at birth, and any mean to alleviate their localization effort and accelerate acceptance to orally grasp a nipple and ingest milk should have had advantageous consequences over evolutionary time. Thus, it is essential for females to display a biological interface structure that is sensorily conspicuous and executively easy for their newborns. Females' strategy to increase the conspicuousness of nipples could only exploit the newborns' most advanced and conserved sensory systems, touch and olfaction, and selection has accordingly shaped tactilely and olfactorily conspicuous mammary structures.…
Un'architettura robotica per l'honest signalling nell'interazione uomo-umanoide
2017
Questo contributo descrive l’architettura di un sistema di rilevazione e classificazione integrato con robot umanoidi per specificare una classe di segnali biologicamente rilevanti che contribuiscono a rendere l’interazione con l’uomo naturale e affidabile. Si presenterà inizialmente la teoria biologica dell’honest signalling e quindi la sua estensione nella sociometrics. Infine, si illustreranno i moduli dell’architettura progettata come genera- trice di modelli di percezione sociale testabili per una classe delimitata di segnali sociali. This paper describes the architecture of a detection and classification humanoid integrated system, which is designed to specify one class of biologicall…