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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.
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  - http://asip.lucs.lu.se/ftp/pub/LUCS_Studies/LUCS123/clowes.pdf
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confdates: 'July 22-24, 2005'
conference: 'Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
confloc: 'Nara, Japan'
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creators_id: []
creators_name:
  - family: Clowes
    given: Robert
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Morse
    given: Anthony F.
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2005
date_type: published
datestamp: 2006-07-23
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editors_name:
  - family: Berthouze
    given: Luc
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Kaplan
    given: Frédéric
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Kozima
    given: Hideki
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Yano
    given: Hiroyuki
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Konczak
    given: Jürgen
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Metta
    given: Giorgio
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Nadel
    given: Jacqueline
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Sandini
    given: Giulio
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Stojanov
    given: Georgi
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Balkenius
    given: Christian
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
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keywords: 'self-directed language, cognitive bootstrapping, simple recurrent neural network, genetic algorithm'
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:29
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pagerange: 101-105
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publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
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reportno: ~
rev_number: 12
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:05:41
subjects:
  - comp-sci-lang
  - dev-psy
  - comp-sci-robot
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suggestions: ~
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title: Scaffolding Cognition with Words
type: confpaper
userid: 3507
volume: 123
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