Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Cogn Neurodyn. 2009 Dec;3(4):373-400. doi: 10.1007/s11571-009-9096-y. Epub 2009 Sep 30.
Research is continually expanding the empirical and theoretical picture of embodiment and dynamics in language. To date, however, a formalized neural dynamic framework for embodied linguistic processes has yet to emerge. To advance embodied theories of language, the present work develops a formalized neural dynamic framework of spatial language that explicitly integrates linguistic processes and dynamic sensory-motor systems. We then implement and test our spatial language architecture on a robotic platform continuously linked to real-time camera input. In a suite of tasks using everyday objects we demonstrate the framework's capacity for both contextually-dependent behavioral flexibility and the seamless integration of spatial, non-spatial, and symbolic representations. To our knowledge this is the first unified, neurally-grounded architecture integrating these processes and behaviors.
研究不断拓展语言体现和动态的经验和理论图景。然而，迄今为止，还没有出现用于体现语言过程的形式化神经动力学框架。为了推进语言的体现理论，本研究提出了一个形式化的空间语言神经动力学框架，该框架明确地整合了语言过程和动态的感觉运动系统。然后，我们在一个与实时摄像头输入持续连接的机器人平台上实现和测试我们的空间语言架构。在一系列使用日常物体的任务中，我们展示了该框架在上下文相关的行为灵活性和空间、非空间和符号表示的无缝集成方面的能力。据我们所知，这是第一个整合这些过程和行为的统一的、基于神经科学的架构。
