title: Scaffolding Cognition with Words
creator: Clowes, Robert
creator: Morse, Anthony F.
subject: Language
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Robotics
description: 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.
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
contributor: Berthouze, Luc
contributor: Kaplan, Frédéric
contributor: Kozima, Hideki
contributor: Yano, Hiroyuki
contributor: Konczak, Jürgen
contributor: Metta, Giorgio
contributor: Nadel, Jacqueline
contributor: Sandini, Giulio
contributor: Stojanov, Georgi
contributor: Balkenius, Christian
date: 2005
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4980/1/clowes.pdf
identifier:   Clowes, Robert and Morse, Anthony F.  (2005) Scaffolding Cognition with Words.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4980/