Belpaeme / Cowley / MacDorman Symbol Grounding

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8874-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 21, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an individual process: a person or machine interacts with the environment and associates symbols with external experiences.
This volume contains views from different disciplines – ranging from psychology to robotics – on how this view can be extended by first extending symbol grounding to encompass semiotics and by showing how the classical view exaggerates the importance of written language: grounding does not necessarily involve written notations, but rather language is an external cognitive resource that allows us to acquire categories and concepts. Secondly, as symbol grounding relies on language to acquire and coordinate the process and language is a dynamical process rooted in both culture and biology, symbol grounding by extension is also sensitive to culture, emotion and embodiment.
The contributions to this volume were previously published in Interaction Studies 8:1 (2007).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belpaeme, Tony

Cowley, Stephen J.

MacDorman, Karl F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Tony Belpaeme and Stephen J. Cowley
Grounding symbols in the physics of speech communication
Simon F. Worgan and Robert I. Damper
Social symbol grounding and language evolution
Paul Vogt and Federico Divina
How many words can my robot learn? An approach and experiments with one-class learning
Luís Seabra Lopes and Aneesh Chauhan
How human infants deal with symbol grounding
Stephen J. Cowley
Semiotic symbols and the missing theory of thinking
Robert Clowes
The acquired language of thought hypothesis: A theory of symbol grounding
Christopher Viger
Afterword: Life after the symbol system metaphor
Karl F. MacDorman
Index