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Socialization between toddlers and robots at an early childhood education center
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Edited by James L. McClelland, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 27, 2007 (received for review August 17, 2007)

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- Published in issue November 13, 2007.
- Published first November 5, 2007.
Author Information
- *Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0523;
- †Sony Corporation, 5-1-12 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawaku, Tokyo 141-0001, Japan; and
- §Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515
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Edited by James L. McClelland, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 27, 2007 (received for review August 17, 2007)
Footnotes
- ‡To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: boom{at}mplab.ucsd.edu
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Author contributions: F.T., A.C., and J.R.M. designed research; F.T., A.C., and J.R.M. performed research; F.T., A.C., and J.R.M. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; F.T. and J.R.M. analyzed data; and F.T., A.C., and J.R.M. wrote the paper.
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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↵ ¶ The 10-h barrier was one of the concepts that emerged from the discussions at the National Science Foundation's Animated Interfaces and Virtual Humans Workshop in Del Mar, California in April 2004.
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This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0707769104/DC1.
- Abbreviation:
- ECEC,
- Early Childhood Education Center.
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Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.
- © 2007 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
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