A Neurocognitive Approach to Self-organisation of Verb Actions

Our approach integrates some neuroscience evidence for regional distributed modularity with cognitive evidence for action verb processing. The long-term goal is to provide a computational model for a neurally inspired selforganising robot action control system. Regional modularity in the brain involves distributed neural networks in diverse regions processing in a parallel manner. According to neurocognitive findings, action verbs are processed by associating specific cell assemblies with the appropriate body part. We present a model of the neurocognitive findings using self-organising networks that cluster action verbs into different locations of the network dependent on the body part they are associated with.

@InProceedings{EW02, 
 	 author =  {Elshaw, Mark I. and Wermter, Stefan},  
 	 title = {A Neurocognitive Approach to Self-organisation of Verb Actions}, 
 	 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks},
 	 number = {},
 	 volume = {},
 	 pages = {24--29},
 	 year = {2002},
 	 month = {May},
 	 publisher = {IEEE},
 	 doi = {}, 
 }