%A Angelo Cangelosi
%A Alberto Greco
%A Stevan Harnad
%J Simulating the Evolution of Language
%T Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis
%X 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.
%K perceptual learning, symbol grounding, categorical perception, categorization, evolution of language, neural nets
%E A Cangelosi
%E D Parisi
%D 2002
%I Springer, London
%L cogprints2132

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