Scaffolding Cognition with Words

We describe a set of experiments investigating the role of natural language symbols in scaffolding situated action. Agents are evolved to respond appropriately to commands in order to perform simple tasks. We explore three different conditions, which show a significant advantage to the re-use of a public symbol system, through self-cueing leading to qualitative changes in performance. This is modelled by looping spoken output via environment back to heard input. We argue this work can be linked to, and sheds new light on, the account of self-directed speech advanced by the developmental psychologist Vygotsky in his model of the development of higher cognitive function

Letter to Marjorie Morse [December 1941]

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Letter to Marjorie Morse [May 5, 1942]

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Letter to Marjorie Morse [August 25, 1941]

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Letter to Marjorie Morse [November 1941]

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Letter to Marjorie Morse [June 6, 1942]

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Letter to Marjorie Morse [December 1941]

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Letter to Robert and Matilda Morse [May 22, 1942]

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Letter to Robert and Matilda Morse [June 28, 1942]

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