Interpersonal Maps and the Body Correspondence Problem

In this paper, we introduce the concept of “interpersonal maps”. They realize a representation of one’s own body to include the body of one’s peers. In cases of strong couplings between agents, a “wecentric” space can emerge in which the agent’s body structure can be directly mapped onto the structure of an observed body. Based on a set of robotic experiments, we argue that this unified representation can help to elucidate both the formation of a body schema and the body correspondence problem.

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