creators_name: MacDorman, Karl F. creators_name: Chalodhorn, Rawichote creators_name: Ishiguro, Hiroshi creators_name: Asada, Minoru editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Sandini, Giulio editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Metta, Giorgio editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2005-04-14 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50 metadata_visibility: show title: Protosymbols that integrate recognition and response ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: protosymbols, shared signs, automatic segmentation, nonlinear principal component neural network, HOAP-1 humanoid robot abstract: We explore two controversial hypotheses through robotic implementation: (1) Processes involved in recognition and response are tightly coupled both in their operation and epigenesis; and (2) processes involved in symbol emergence should respect the integrity of recognition and response while exploiting the periodicity of biological motion. To that end, this paper proposes a method of recognizing and generating motion patterns based on nonlinear principal component neural networks that are constrained to model both periodic and transitional movements. The method is evaluated by an examination of its ability to segment and generalize different kinds of soccer playing activity during a RoboCup match. date: 2004 date_type: published volume: 117 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 123-126 refereed: TRUE citation: MacDorman, Karl F. and Chalodhorn, Rawichote and Ishiguro, Hiroshi and Asada, Minoru (2004) Protosymbols that integrate recognition and response. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4071/1/macdorman.pdf