Hegel and colleagues present (preliminary) results of a neuroimaging study on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Theory of Mind (ToM). What they are interested in, is whether the shape of the interacting partner (human, anthropomorphic robot, functional robot, computer) in a Prisoner’s Dilemma Game scenario would have an influence on the measured activity in ToM brain areas (medial prefrontal lobe, anterior cingulate cortex).

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Human-Robot Interaction at wikipedia.en