Are we there yet? Grounding temporal concepts in shared journeys

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-175

  Schulz, Ruth ^a   Wyeth, Gordon ^b   Wiles, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive maps; evolution of language; robots; temporal concepts

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MAPS; EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE GAMES; LONG JOURNEY; ROBOT LANGUAGE; SPATIAL CONCEPTS; TEMPORAL ASPECTS; TEMPORAL CONCEPTS; TEMPORAL INTERVAL LOGIC; TEMPORAL TERMS;

ROBOTS;

TEMPORAL LOGIC;

EID: 79959258422     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2010.2103361     Document Type: Article

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