The Sensorimotor Bases of Linguistic Structure: Experiments with Grounded Adaptive Agents (2004)
| Venue: | In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour: From Animals to Animals |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Adaptive04thesensorimotor,
author = {Angelo Cangelosi Adaptive and Angelo Cangelosi},
title = {The Sensorimotor Bases of Linguistic Structure: Experiments with Grounded Adaptive Agents},
booktitle = {In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour: From Animals to Animals},
year = {2004},
pages = {487--496},
publisher = {MIT Press}
}
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Abstract
This research uses grounded adaptive agents for investigating the evolutionary origins of syntactic categories, such as nouns and verbs. To analyze the sensorimotor bases of linguistic structure, the techniques of categorical perception and of synthetic brain imaging are employed. The simulation uses two different architectures for the adaptive agent's neural controller. Analyses show that the neural processing of verbs is consistently localized in the regions of the networks that perform sensorimotor integration, while nouns are associated with sensory processing areas. The general implications of such model and of the analysis techniques for adaptive behavior and language evolution research are discussed.
