An experiment on behavior generalization and the emergence of linguistic compositionality in evolving robots

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 176-189

  Tuci, Elio ^a   Ferrauto, Tomassino ^a   Zeschel, Arne ^b   Massera, Gianluca ^a   Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; behavior generalization; compositional semantics; evolutionary robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; BEHAVIOR GENERALIZATION; COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS; COMPOSITIONALITY; DYNAMICAL NEURAL NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; SEMANTIC SPACE; SENSORY MOTORS; SIMULATED AGENTS; TARGET OBJECT;

NEURAL NETWORKS; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79959187558     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2114659     Document Type: Article

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