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In social interaction between two persons usually a person displays understanding of the other person. This may involve both nonverbal and verbal elements, such as bodily expressing a similar emotion and verbally expressing beliefs about the other person. Such social interaction relates to an underlying neural mechanism based on a mirror neuron system, as known within Social Neuroscience. This mechanism may show different variations over time. This paper addresses this adaptation over time. It presents a computational model capable of learning social responses, based on insights from Social Neuroscience. The presented model may provide a basis for virtual agents in the context of simulation-based training of psychotherapists, gaming, or virtual stories.
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Treur, J. (2011). A Computational Agent Model for Hebbian Learning of Social Interaction. In: Lu, BL., Zhang, L., Kwok, J. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24955-6_2
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