Constructive Understanding of Emotional Development with Probabilistic Models (JSPS DC2)

This doctoral project was conducted as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC2). We constructively modeled emotional development during infancy using probabilistic generative models, and computationally investigated how caregivers’ perceptual biases contribute to the acquisition and differentiation of an infant’s emotional structure. This work became the starting point of our subsequent constructive research on emotion and has developed into computational modeling of emotion and active-inference-based human-robot interaction.