A perspective paper authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published in Advances in Child Development and Behavior. This paper proposes the theory of Embodied Predictive Processing, an extension of the brain’s predictive processing framework, as a generative principle underlying the development of cognitive functions and the diversity observed in their developmental trajectories. This paper demonstrates, through a series of robot experiments, how cognitive functions emerge from the dynamic interactions among the brain, body, and environment.
- Yukie Nagai, “Embodied predictive processing: A unifying generative principle for cognitive development,” Advances in Child Development and Behavior, A. S. Warlaumont, J. J. Lockman (Eds.), 70:57-84, June 2026.
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