Papers
6
Total Citations
189
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6
About
Yusuke Moriguchi is a developmental psychologist whose research sits at the intersection of social cognition, robotics, and early childhood learning. His work explores how young children interpret and learn from human versus non-human agents, with a particular focus on perseveration, word learning, and the social transmission of behavior. Moriguchi’s most impactful study, a 2012 paper on tactile sensor arrays (86 citations), demonstrates his versatility in engineering and sensor design, but his core contributions center on developmental robotics and social learning. In a landmark 2011 study (37 citations), he showed that preschool children can learn new words from a robot, challenging assumptions about the necessity of human interaction for language acquisition. His 2009 work (36 citations) revealed that children perseverate—repeating errors—only after observing human actions, not robot actions, highlighting the unique social cues that drive imitation and cognitive flexibility. Moriguchi’s research has been instrumental in understanding how social observation triggers disinhibition and searching errors in infants, with implications for both developmental psychology and human-robot interaction. His work bridges engineering and cognitive science, offering insights into how children distinguish between human and mechanical agents.
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- 2Can young children learn words from a robot?37 citations · 2011
- 3Children perseverate to a human's actions but not to a robot's actions36 citations · 2009
- 4Cues that trigger social transmission of disinhibition in young children17 citations · 2010
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- 6The Development of Mentalizing and Emotion in Human Children6 citations · 2012