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Marocco, D., Cangelosi, A., and Nolfi, S. (2002) The Role of Social and Cognitive Abilities in the Emergence of Communication: Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics. In EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics Bristol, pages 174--181.
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The Role of Social and Cognitive Abilities in the Emergence of
Communication: Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics
Davide Marocco 1,3
1 University of Calabria,
Centro Interdipartimentale della
Comunicazione
Arcavacata di Rende, 87036
Cosenza, Italy
davidem@ip.rm.cnr.it
Angelo Cangelosi 2
2 University of Plymouth
Institute of Neuroscience
and School of Computing
Drake Circus, PL4 8AA
Plymouth, UK
acangelosi@plymouth.ac.uk
Stefano Nolfi 3
3 National Research Council
Institute of Cognitive Science
and Technologies,
Viale Marx 15, 00137
Rome, Italy
nolfi@ip.rm.cnr.it
Abstract Evolutionary robotics is a biologically inspired approach to robotics that is advantageous to studying the evolution of language. A new model for the evolution of language is presented. This model is used to investigate the interrelationships between communication abilities, namely linguistic production and comprehension, and other behavioral skills. For example, the model supports the hypothesis that the ability to form categories from direct interaction with an environment constitutes the ground for subsequent evolution of communication and language. A variety of experiments, based on the role of social and evolutionary variables in the emergence of communication, are described.
1. Introduction The communication between autonomous agents, be they robots or simulated virtual agents, has recently attracted the interest of researchers from different fields. In engineering, the design and evaluation of communication systems is interesting due to its practical applications for agent­agent interaction and also for human­agent and human­robot communication (e.g. Lauria et al., 2002). For cognitive scientists, the development of computational models for the evolution of language permits the investigation of the role of sensorimotor, cognitive, neural and social factors in the emergence and establishment of communication and language (Cangelosi & Parisi, 2002). Studies on the emergence of communication ...
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@inproceedings{marocco_theRole,
  author={Davide Marocco and Angelo Cangelosi and Stefano Nolfi},
  title={The Role of Social and Cognitive Abilities in the Emergence of Communication: Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics},
  year={2002},
  pages={174-181},
  booktitle={EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics Bristol},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/marocco_theRole.html}
}

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