creators_name: Clowes, Robert
creators_name: Morse, Anthony F.
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kaplan, Frédéric
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Yano, Hiroyuki
editors_name: Konczak, Jürgen
editors_name: Metta, Giorgio
editors_name: Nadel, Jacqueline
editors_name: Sandini, Giulio
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2006-07-23
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:29
metadata_visibility: show
title: Scaffolding Cognition with Words
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: comp-sci-robot
full_text_status: public
keywords: self-directed language, cognitive bootstrapping, simple recurrent neural network, genetic algorithm
abstract: We describe a set of experiments investigating the role
of natural language symbols in scaffolding situated
action. Agents are evolved to respond appropriately to
commands in order to perform simple tasks. We
explore three different conditions, which show a
significant advantage to the re-use of a public symbol
system, through self-cueing leading to qualitative
changes in performance. This is modelled by looping
spoken output via environment back to heard input.
We argue this work can be linked to, and sheds new
light on, the account of self-directed speech advanced
by the developmental psychologist Vygotsky in his
model of the development of higher cognitive function.
date: 2005
date_type: published
volume: 123
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 101-105
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Clowes, Robert and Morse, Anthony F.  (2005) Scaffolding Cognition with Words.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4980/1/clowes.pdf