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A Language for Human Action

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A Language for Human Action
and therefore should be implemented outside the sensory-motor system. This way, meaning for a concept amounts to the content of a symbolic expression, a definition of the concept in a logical calculus. An alternative approach holds that concepts are grounded in sensory-motor representations. This sensory-motor intelligence considers sensors and motors in the shaping of the cognitive hidden mechanisms and knowledge incorporation. A variety of studies in many disciplines—such as neurophysiology, psychophysics, and cognitive linguistics—suggest that the human sensory-motor system is indeed deeply involved in concept representations. An empirically demonstrated human activity language provides sensory-motor-grounded representations for understanding human actions.A linguistic framework allows the analysis and synthesis of these actions. Gutemberg Guerra-Filho and Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland, College Park H uman-centered computing (HCC) involves conforming computer technol...
Gutemberg Guerra-Filho, Yiannis Aloimonos
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where COMPUTER
Authors Gutemberg Guerra-Filho, Yiannis Aloimonos
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