The grounding of higher order concepts in action and language: A cognitive robotics model

Neural Networks

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-173

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstract language; Computational modelling; Developmental cognitive robotics; Recurrent neural network; Symbol grounding

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT LANGUAGES; ABSTRACT WORD; BASIC CONCEPTS; COGNITIVE ROBOTICS; COGNITIVE ROBOTS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; HIGHER ORDER; HUMANOID ROBOT; SYMBOL GROUNDING; SYMBOL MANIPULATION; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION; TEMPORAL SEQUENCES;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; LINGUISTICS; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

ROBOTICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861766092     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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