Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-44

  Borghi, Anna M ^a,b   di Ferdinando, Andrea ^b   Parisi, Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affordances; Embodied cognition; Genetic algorithm; Motor system; Neural networks; Spatial compatibility

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; ARTIFICIAL ORGANISMS; EMBODIED COGNITION; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOTOR SYSTEMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SPATIAL COMPATIBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; ROBOTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 77958510665     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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