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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Robotics Volume 2010, Article ID 241785, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2010/241785 Research Article HCBPM: An Idea Toward a Social Learning Environment for Humanoid Robot Fady Alnajjar,1 Abdul Rahman Hafiz,2 and Kazuyuki Murase1, 2, 3 1 Department of System Design Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 2 Department of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 3 Research and Education Program for Life Science, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Fady Alnajjar, fady@brain.riken.jp Received 3 March 2010; Revised 1 July 2010; Accepted 2 July 2010 Academic Editor: Danica Kragic Copyright © 2010 Fady Alnajjar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To advance robotics toward real-world applications, a growing body of research has focused on the development of control systems for humanoid robots in recent years. Several approaches have been proposed to support the learning stage of such controllers, where the robot can learn new behaviors by observing and/or receiving direct guidance from a human or even another robot. These approaches require dynamic learning and memorization techniques, which the robot can use to reform and update its internal systems continuously while learning new behaviors. Against this background, this study investigates a new approach to the development of an incremental learning and memorization model. This approach was inspired by the principles of neuroscience, and the developed model was named “Hierarchic