8:45-10:00 Development
Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Larissa Samuelson
(Indiana University)
On how general learning processes create
language-specific learning biases
Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago)
Form and function in very early word learning
William Merriman (Kent State University)
The CALLED model of early word learning
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Concepts
Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University)
Perceptual simulation in conceptual tasks
Pei Wang (Intelligenesis Corporation and Indiana University)
Grounding the meaning of symbols on the system's experience
Arthur Glenberg (University of Wisconsin)
Grounding meaning in affordances
Michael Gasser and Eliana Colunga (Indiana University)
Linguistic/non-linguistic interactions in the learning of word
meaning
12:10-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:30 Space
Barbara Landau (University of Delaware)
Spatial cognition and spatial language: What do we need
to know to talk about space?
Terry Regier (University of Chicago), Laura
Carlson-Radvansky (University of Notre Dame)
Attention and population coding in spatial language
2:30-4:10 Embodiment 1
Jerome A. Feldman and George Lakoff (ICSI and UC Berkeley; talk given
by Srini Narayanan)
Structured connectionist modeling of word learning
Claudia Brugman and Srini Narayanan (ICSI and UC Berkeley)
Toward a dynamic semantics of ``HAVE A COW''
David Andre, Nancy Chang, and Srini Narayanan (ICSI and
UC Berkeley)
Active representations for language acquisition and us
Luc Steels (SONY, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; talk given by Paul Vogt,
VUB)
Grounding meaning and language in situated embodied action
4:10-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:45 Embodiment 2
Paul R. Cohen and Tim Oates (University of Massachusetts)
A dynamical basis for the semantic content of verbs
Michael T. Rosenstein and Paul R. Cohen (University of
Massachusetts)
Symbol grounding with delay coordinates
Deb Roy and Alex Pentland (MIT)
Learning audio-visually grounded words from natural input
5:45-6:30 General Discussion
7:00- Dinner and More Discussion
| Organizers | Help | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Gasser | Eliana Colunga | AAAI 98 |
| Terry Regier | Cognitive Science Conference 98 |