The physical symbol grounding problem

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 429-457

  Vogt, Paul ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embodied cognitive science; Robots; Symbol grounding problem; Symbolic structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0344639869     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-0417(02)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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