Towards a construction-based framework for development of language, event perception and social cognition: Insights from grounded robotics and simulation

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 13-15, 2007, Pages 2288-2302

  Dominey, Peter Ford ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Event perception; Grammatical construction; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; MAPPING; ROBOTICS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EVENT PERCEPTION; GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION; NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL MECHANISM; SOCIAL COGNITION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34249720190     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.02.030     Document Type: Article

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