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Towards a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics: The role of language as a cognitive tool
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New Ideas in Psychology . Dec2011, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p298-311. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Abstract: Cognitive Robotics can be defined as the study of cognitive phenomena by their modeling in physical artifacts such as robots. This is a very lively and fascinating field which has already given fundamental contributions to our understanding of natural cognition. Nonetheless, robotics has to date addressed mainly very basic, low-level cognitive phenomena like sensory-motor coordination, perception, and navigation, and it is not clear how the current approach might scale up to explain high-level human cognition. In this paper we argue that a promising way to do that is to merge current ideas and methods of ‘embodied cognition’ with the Russian tradition of theoretical psychology which views language not only as a communication system but also as a cognitive tool, that is by developing a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics. We substantiate this idea by discussing several domains in which language can improve basic cognitive abilities and permit the development of high-level cognition: learning, categorization, abstraction, memory, voluntary control, and mental life. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0732118X
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Ideas in Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 60788082
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2009.07.001