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This paper introduces a model for associative learning combining both linguistic and behavior modalities. The model consists of language and behavior modules both implemented by a hierarchical dynamic network model and interacting densely through hub-like neurons, the so-called parametric biases (PB). By implementing this model for a humanoid robot with the task of manipulating multiple objects, the robot was tutored to associate sentences of two different grammatical types with corresponding sensory-motor schemata. The first type was a verb followed by an objective noun such as “hold red” or “hit blue”; the second was a verb followed by an objective noun and further followed by an adverb phrase such as “Put red on blue”. Our analysis of the results of a learning experiment showed that two clusters corresponding to these two types of grammatical sentences appear in the PB activity space, such that a specific micro structure is organized for each cluster.
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Arie, H., Endo, T., Jeong, S., Lee, M., Sugano, S., Tani, J. (2010). Integrative Learning between Language and Action: A Neuro-Robotics Experiment. In: Diamantaras, K., Duch, W., Iliadis, L.S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010. ICANN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6353. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15822-3_33
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