The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition

Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition
Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition
In this toy model of the simplest form of categorization performed by neural nets, CP effects arise as a natural side-effect of the way these particular nets accomplish categorization. Whether the CP effect is universal or peculiar to some kinds of nets (cf. Grossberg 1984), whether the nets' capacity to do simple one-dimensional categorization will scale up to the full multidimensional categorization capacities of human beings, how the grounded labels of these sensory categories are to be combined into strings of symbols that function as propositions about higher-order category membership, and how the nonarbitrary "shape" constraints these symbols inherit from their grounding will affect the functioning of such a hybrid symbol system remain questions for future research. If these results can be generalized, however, the "warping" of analog similarity space may be a significant factor in grounding.
75-90
Springer
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Clark, A.
Lutz, R
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Clark, A.
Lutz, R

Harnad, Stevan (1992) Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition. Clark, A. and Lutz, R (eds.) In Connectionism in Context. Springer. pp. 75-90 .

Record type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Abstract

In this toy model of the simplest form of categorization performed by neural nets, CP effects arise as a natural side-effect of the way these particular nets accomplish categorization. Whether the CP effect is universal or peculiar to some kinds of nets (cf. Grossberg 1984), whether the nets' capacity to do simple one-dimensional categorization will scale up to the full multidimensional categorization capacities of human beings, how the grounded labels of these sensory categories are to be combined into strings of symbols that function as propositions about higher-order category membership, and how the nonarbitrary "shape" constraints these symbols inherit from their grounding will affect the functioning of such a hybrid symbol system remain questions for future research. If these results can be generalized, however, the "warping" of analog similarity space may be a significant factor in grounding.

Text
harnad92.symbol.object.html - Other
Download (50kB)

More information

Published date: 1992
Venue - Dates: Connectionism in Context, 1992-01-01
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 253374
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/253374
PURE UUID: 85212fad-24ca-45d6-af28-5c6fc7de5dd8
ORCID for Stevan Harnad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-1129

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 26 May 2000
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

Export record

Contributors

Author: Stevan Harnad ORCID iD
Editor: A. Clark
Editor: R Lutz

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×