Adaptive agent modeling of distributed language: investigations on the effects of cultural variation and internal action representations

Language Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 633-649

  Cangelosi, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Embodied cognition; Language evolution; Neural networks; Symbol grounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547862434     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2006.12.026     Document Type: Article

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