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  • Developmental psychology
  • Robotics
  • Evolutionary biology

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  • Infants' active engagement shapes their learning experiences.
  • Embodied information seeking and curiosity are key developmental mechanisms.
  • These mechanisms have implications for both individual development and evolutionary processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review models of embodied information seeking and curiosity-driven learning.
  • To explore how these mechanisms influence self-organized epigenesis and developmental stages.
  • To present a robotic experiment investigating intrinsic rewards from learning.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing theoretical models.
  • Development and implementation of a robotic learning system.
  • Probabilistic selection of experiences based on uncertainty reduction.

Main Results:

  • Robotic learners discovered object affordances and vocal interaction through curiosity.
  • An adaptive learning curriculum emerged, shaping developmental trajectories.
  • Robot developmental patterns showed regularities and diversities similar to infant development.

Conclusions:

  • Curiosity-driven learning and embodied information seeking drive self-organized development.
  • Emergent developmental structures can guide evolutionary processes, including language origins.
  • Robotic models provide insights into the interplay of learning, development, and evolution.