Caroline Lyon
Papers
9
Total Citations
115
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About
Caroline Lyon is a researcher whose work sits at the fascinating intersection of developmental robotics, cognitive science, and language acquisition. Her research investigates how humanoid robots can replicate and illuminate the processes by which human infants acquire language, focusing particularly on the earliest stages of linguistic development — from prelinguistic babbling through to meaningful word use. Lyon's most significant contributions emerge from her involvement in the multidisciplinary ITALK Project, which used humanoid robots as empirical platforms for studying how language, social interaction, and cognition co-develop. Her most-cited paper (31 citations) demonstrates how robots can transition from babbling to recognizable word forms, mirroring cognitive milestones observed in children aged 6 to 14 months. Across her body of work, she has championed enactive and constructivist paradigms, drawing on Wittgenstein's philosophy to frame robot-human interaction as a "form-of-life" grounded in sensorimotor experience. Her research uniquely bridges computational modeling and developmental psychology, offering insights relevant to both artificial intelligence and our understanding of human cognition. With nearly 115 citations across her key publications, Lyon's work has made a meaningful contribution to embodied language learning and the principled design of socially interactive robotic systems.
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- 3Interaction and experience in enactive intelligence and humanoid robotics18 citations · 2013
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