TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints2132
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2132/
A1  - Cangelosi, Angelo
A1  - Greco, Alberto
A1  - Harnad, Stevan
Y1  - 2002///
N2  - 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.
PB  - Springer, London
KW  - perceptual learning
KW  -  symbol grounding
KW  -  categorical perception
KW  -  categorization
KW  -  evolution of language
KW  -  neural nets
TI  - Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis
AV  - public
ER  -

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