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Constructive Developmental Science: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach Toward the Fundamentals of Human Cognitive Development and Its Disorders, Centered Around Fetus Simulation

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How does human mind develop? What causes developmental disorders? Recent studies suggest the importance of the fetal period in human development. However, study of human fetuses is strongly constrained by technical and ethical difficulties. This project aims at understanding the principles of human development by analyzing and modeling it from the fetal period. Integrating robotics, medicine, psychology, neuroscience, and Tohjisha-kenkyu (first-person view research of developmental disorders), we establish a new trans-disciplinary research field called Constructive Developmental Science. Its contributions include a new understanding of human development and its disorders, comprehensive diagnostic methodologies, and truly appropriate assistive technology.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 24119001, 24119002. Yukie Nagai, Yukuo Konishi, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi and Shin’ichiro Kumagaya serve as the principal investigators of the research groups A02, B01, B02, C01 respectively. We thank the researchers who have contributed to the planning and execution of this research, in particular, Minoru Asada, Toshio Inui, Ichiro Tsuda, as well as the fellow colleagues who have engaged in our discussions. We thank researchers and students for their productive contribution to the progress of this research.

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Kuniyoshi, Y. (2016). Constructive Developmental Science: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach Toward the Fundamentals of Human Cognitive Development and Its Disorders, Centered Around Fetus Simulation. In: Inaba, M., Corke, P. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28872-7_17

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