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We are working on the neural mechanisms underlying visuomotor integration for reaching and body schema, affordances learning, the emergence of tool-use in infants development for robots.

current Phd student Julien Abrossimoff

former Phd student Raphael Braud 

Abrossimoff, J. Pitti, A. & Gaussier, P. Visual Learning for Reaching and Body-Schema with Gain-Field Networks, IEEE ICDL EPIROB conference, Tokyo 2018

Gaussier, P. & Pitti, A. Reaching and Grasping: what we can learn from psychology and robotics, book chapter 14, ed. Corbetta and Santello, Reach-to-Grasp Behavior, Brain, Behavior, and Modelling Across the Life Span, Collection: Frontiers of Developmental Science, Routledge, 2018

Braud, R. Pitti, A. Gaussier, P. A modular Dynamic Sensorimotor Model for affordances learning, sequences planning and tool-use IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems vol 10, number 1, 2018

Mahé S., Braud R., Gaussier P., Quoy M. & Pitti A., Exploiting the gain-modulation mechanism in parieto-motor neurons: Application to visuomotor transformations and embodied simulation, Neural Networks, Jan 2015, vol.62, no.1, pp.102-111

Pitti A., Mori, H., Kouzuma, S. & Kuniyoshi Y., Contingency Perception and Agency Measure in Visuo-Motor Spiking Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Autonomous Mental Development, Jan 2009, vol.1, no.1, pp. 86-97.

Pitti A., Alirezaei H. & Kuniyoshi Y., Cross-modal and scale-free action representations through enaction, Neural Networks. Special issue "What it means to communicate", Feb 2009, vol.22, no.2, pp. 144-154.