Towards a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics: The role of language as a cognitive tool |
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Authors: | Marco Mirolli Domenico Parisi |
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Institution: | Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Via San Martino della Battaglia, 44, 00185 Roma, Italy |
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Abstract: | Cognitive Robotics can be defined as the study of cognitive phenomena by their modeling in physical artifacts such as robots. This is a very lively and fascinating field which has already given fundamental contributions to our understanding of natural cognition. Nonetheless, robotics has to date addressed mainly very basic, low-level cognitive phenomena like sensory-motor coordination, perception, and navigation, and it is not clear how the current approach might scale up to explain high-level human cognition. In this paper we argue that a promising way to do that is to merge current ideas and methods of ‘embodied cognition’ with the Russian tradition of theoretical psychology which views language not only as a communication system but also as a cognitive tool, that is by developing a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics. We substantiate this idea by discussing several domains in which language can improve basic cognitive abilities and permit the development of high-level cognition: learning, categorization, abstraction, memory, voluntary control, and mental life. |
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Keywords: | Robotics Cognition Language Vygotsky Categorization Learning |
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