Modelling the Evolution of Language

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PUBLICATIONS

Book

Cangelosi A., Domenico P.  (Eds.) (2002).  Simulating the Evolution of Language. London: Springer. (Summary + Table of content) (Book web page)

Publications in Journals

Cangelosi A., Parisi D. (in press). The processing of verbs and nouns in neural networks: Insights from Synthetic Brain Imaging. Brain & Language (pdf file)

Marocco D., Cangelosi A., Nolfi S. (2003), The emergence of communication is evolutionary robots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London – A, 361: 2397-2421 (pdf file)

Cangelosi A. (in press). Neural network models of category learning and language. Brain and Cognition

Munroe S., Cangelosi A. (2002). Learning and the evolution of language: the role of cultural variation and learning cost in the Baldwin Effect. Artificial Life 8, 311-339 (pdf file)

Parisi D., Cangelosi A., Falcetta I. (2002). Verbs, nouns and simulated language games. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 14(1): 99-114 (pdf file)

Cangelosi A. (2002). Language evolution in apes and autonomous agents: A commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(5): 622-623

Cangelosi A. (2001). Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols and words. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 5(2), 93-101 (preprint)

Publications in Books and Conference Proceedings

Greco A., Riga T. & Cangelosi A. (2003). The acquisition of new categories through grounded symbols: An extended connectionist model. O. Kaynak, E. Alpaydin, E. Oja & L. Xu (Eds.). Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing - ICANN/ICONIP 2003. Berlin: Springer, pp. 773-770 (pdf file)

Cangelosi A., Marocco D., Bilotta E., P.A. Bertacchini (2003), Studying the evolution of language: Simulation and robotic approaches. In M.C. Usai & M. Zanobini (Eds), Psychology of life cycles, Milan: Franco Angeli, 83-99 (in Italian)

Marocco D., Cangelosi A., Nolfi S. (2002), The role of social and cognitive abilities in the emergence of communication: Experiments in evolutionary robotics. EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics HP, pp. 174-181 (pdf file)

Cangelosi A. & Turner H. (2002). The emergence of language. In A.M. Borghi & T. Iachini, The Sciences of Mind, Bologna: Il Mulino, pp. 227-244 (in Italian)

Cangelosi A., Parisi D. (2001). How nouns and verbs differentially affect the behavior of artificial organisms. In J.D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 170-175 (preprint)

Cangelosi A. (2003). Modularity and language in evolutionary neural networks. In C.L. Nehaniv, P.J. Bentley & S. Kumar (eds). Evolvability, Genetics & Development in Natural and Constructed Systems: Abstracts of the EPSRC Evolvability Network Symposium. University of Hertfordshire.

Cangelosi A., Giolito B. (2003) Sensorimotor representations and linguistic structure in artificial agents: Investigations with synthetic brain imaging techniques. 1st Italian Workshop on Artificial Life, Universita’ della Calabria. September 2003

Marocco D., Stuart E.J., Cangelosi A. (2003). Visualisation techniques in artificial life: The method of parallel coordinates. 1st Italian Workshop on Artificial Life, Universita’ della Calabria. September 2003

Greco A., Riga T., Cangelosi A. (2002), Grounding transfer of symbols in neural networks. 1st Conference of the Italian Cognitive Science Association. Rovereto, September 2002 (in Italian)

Munroe S., Cangelosi A. (2002). Cultural transmission, learning cost and the Baldwin effect in language evolution. In J. Hurford & T. Titch (Eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, p.79

Turner S., Cangelosi A. (2002). Implicating working memory in the representation of constituent structure and the origins of word-order universals. In J. Hurford & T. Titch (Eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, p.114

Turner H., Cangelosi A. (2001). The role of memory load in syntactic processing and language evolution Language, Brain, and Culture Conference, Sydney, 12-14 December, p.45-46

Turner H. (2002). An introduction to methods for simulating the evolution of language. In A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi, Simulating the evolution of language, London: Springer, pp. 29-50

Greco A., Riga T. & Cangelosi A. (2001). The acquisition of new categories in neural networks through grounded symbols. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Italian Association for Experimental Psychology, Alghero, September 2001 (in Italian)

Riga T., Greco A. & Cangelosi A. (2001). Acquiring higher-level categories by sensorimotor grounding of entry-level features. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Workshop of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems. Maastricht, May 18-21, 13-14.

Papers in preparation and submitted

A. Cangelosi (invited chapter). Neural network models of category learning and language. In H. Cohen & C. Lefebvre (Eds), Categorization in Cognitive Science

Greco A., Cangelosi A. & Riga T. (submitted). The grounding of symbols through the experience with the world: A connectionist approach. Intelligent Systems (in Italian)

Cangelosi A. (submitted). The sensorimotor origins of linguistic categories: Experiments with grounded neural network models. 5th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Leipzig March 2004

Marocco D. & Cangelosi A. (submitted). Evolutionary robotics experiments on the emergence of communication. 5th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Leipzig March 2004

Turner H. (submitted). The appearance of design in grammatical universals as evidence of adaptation for non-communicative functions. 5th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Leipzig March 2004

Cangelosi A. (in preparation). The sensorimotor basis of linguistic categories. To be submitted to Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour Conference, Los Angeles, July 2004.

Cangelosi A. (submitted). Grounding language on sensorimotor and cognitive categories. AISB Quartely Newsletter