Simulating the acquisition of object names

Authors:
Alessio Plebe;Vivian De la Cruz;Marco Mazzone
Affiliations:
University of Messina - Italy;University of Messina - Italy;University of Catania - Italy
Venue:
CACLA '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Naming requires recognition. Recognition requires the ability to categorize objects and events. Infants under six months of age are capable of making fine-grained discriminations of object boundaries and three-dimensional space. At 8 to 10 months, a child's object categories are sufficiently stable and flexible to be used as the foundation for labeling and referencing actions. What mechanisms in the brain underlie the unfolding of these capacities? In this article, we describe a neural network model which attempts to simulate, in a biologically plausible way, the process by which infants learn how to recognize objects and words through exposure to visual stimuli and vocal sounds.