The grounding and sharing of symbols

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-285

  Cangelosi, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Cognitive modeling; Neural networks; Symbol grounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749636119     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.14.2.08can     Document Type: Article

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