"2132","Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis","Computational simulations are used to model the following: (1) category learning through sensorimotor trial and error (\"sensorimotor toil\") and how it generates categorical perception (decreased between-category similarity and increased within-category similarity); (2) symbol grounding (the connection between symbols and the sensorimotor categories that they name); (3) the origins of language as the capacity to acquire categories indirectly, by definition alone (\"symbolic theft\"); and (4) the evolutionary advantage of acquiring categories by this symbolic theft instead of sensorimotor toil.","http://cogprints.org/2132/","Cangelosi, Angelo and Greco, Alberto and Harnad, Stevan","Cangelosi, A and Parisi, D","       <span class=\"person_name\">Cangelosi, Angelo</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Greco, Alberto</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Harnad, Stevan</span>     (2002)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/2132/\"><em>Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis.</em></a>       [Book Chapter]           ","","2002"