Lingodroids: Socially grounding place names in privately grounded cognitive maps

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 409-424

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognitive map; grounding; language game; Lingodroids; real robots; spatial language

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255160668     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712311421437     Document Type: Article

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