Althaus, Nadja and Mareschal, Denis (2010) Early language as multimodal learning. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Progress in Neural Processing: Volume 20. Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior From Theory to Applications (Proceedings of the 12th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop). London, UK: World Scientific, pp. 110-123. ISBN 9789814340342.
Abstract
We introduce a model of word learning in infants based on cross-modal interactions. Our model employs an architecture consisting of two Self-organizing maps (SOMs), representing the visual and auditory modalities, which are connected by Hebbian links. In contrast to previous models using a similar architecture, our model employs active Hebbian connections which propagate activation between the visual and auditory maps during learning. Our results show that categorical perception emerges from these early audio-visual interactions in both domains. We argue that the learning mechanism introduced in our model could be behind the facilitation of infants categorization through verbal labelling reported in the literature.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2015 16:56 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11879 |
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