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Prelinguistic agents will form only egocentric representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Michael L. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD20742http://www.cs.umd.edu/~anderson
Tim Oates*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD21250http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~oates/

Abstract:

The representations formed by the ventral and dorsal streams of a prelinguistic agent will tend to be too qualitatively similar to support the distinct roles required by PREDICATE(x) structure. We suggest that the attachment of qualities to objects is not a product of the combination of these separate processing streams, but is instead a part of the processing required in each. In addition, we suggest that the formation of objective predicates is inextricably bound up with the emergence of language itself, and so cannot be cleanly identified with any prelinguistic cognitive capacities.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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