Towards a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics: The role of language as a cognitive tool

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 298-311

  Mirolli, Marco ^a   Parisi, Domenico ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cognition; Language; Learning; Robotics; Vygotsky

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956072021     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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