Towards the grounding of abstract words: A Neural Network model for cognitive robots

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 467-474

  Stramandinoli, Francesca ^a   Cangelosi, Angelo ^a   Marocco, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPT; ABSTRACT WORD; BASIC ACTIONS; COGNITIVE ROBOTS; HIGHER ORDER; HUMANOID ROBOT; HUMANOID ROBOTICS; LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS; MODEL-BASED OPC; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; ROBOTIC ARCHITECTURES; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SIMULATED ROBOT; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; SYMBOL GROUNDING;

ABSTRACTING; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 80054760395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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