Integrating action and language through biased competition

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2010, Pages

  Symes, Ed ^a   Tucker, Mike ^a   Ottoboni, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action intentions; Biased competition; Change detection; Language cues; Top down and bottom up interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953004543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2010.00009     Document Type: Article

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