Semantics of Internal and External Worlds

Seifert, Uwe; Verschure, Paul F. M. J.; Arbib, Michael A.; Cohen, Annabel J.; Fogassi, Leonardo; Fritz, Thomas Hans; Kuperberg, Gina R.; Manzolli, Jônatas; Rickard, Nikki

doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262018104.003.0008

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“…Note that most people (unlike PwD) have a rich context model. This points us to another challenge for extending TCGto go beyond the limited working memory or SemRep relevant to a single episode or utterance to the accumulation of "intermediate term memory" (Seifert et al, 2013).…”

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Primates, computation, and the path to language

Arbib

2016

Physics of Life Reviews

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The target article (Arbib, 2015), henceforth TA, had as its main title Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology. This unpacks into three claims:  Comparative Primatology: If one wishes to understand the behavior of any one primate species (whether monkey, ape or human -TA did not discuss, e.g., lemurs but that study could well be of interest), one will gain new insight by comparing behaviors across species, sharpening one's analysis of one class of behaviors by analyzing similarities and differences between two or more species. Comparative Neuroprimatology: This adds the challenge of comparing brains across primate species and seeking to relate comparisons of brain and of behavior. Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Here the aim is to go beyond informal analysis of brainbehavior relations, using computational modeling to assess the contributions of specific brain regions or neural circuitry to a class of behaviors in one species, proceeding thence to offer a more detailed analysis of how neural similarities/differences across species can enrich our understanding of behavioral similarities/differencesWe may see this as an important subclass of computational neuroethology, providing a particular perspective on ethology, the study of animal behavior more generally. Much current neuroscience uses genetically modified mice to explore neural mechanisms, so future work may increasingly consider mice as "honorary primates"but this observation points up a major lacuna in the TA and the commentaries, namely the role of genetics. However, we do extend the study "upwards" from studying the brain and body of a single individual to the study of social interactions.The subtitle Framing the Language-Ready Brain offers an interlocking set of case studies to exemplify computational comparative neuroprimatology. It combined  A summary of prior work on the Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) for the evolution of the human languageready brain, based on comparison of monkey, ape and human praxis and communicationspanning from Arbib

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Primates, computation, and the path to language

Arbib

2016

Physics of Life Reviews

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“…That is, the construction of meaningful elements in music takes place in a dynamic way over time and one mechanism that accounts for this aspect is grouping. That is, the evolving representation of meaning, known from the research area of discourse/text comprehension, could be also applied to musical large-scale structure ( Seifert et al, 2013 ). In this way, in a large-scale structure, music is also compositional, but this is quite different from sentence level compositionality of language, rather similar to text level compositionality.…”

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“…21 Therefore, musical meaning is presentational ( Bierwisch, 1979 ) and experiential ( Molnar-Szakacs and Overy, 2006 ) by being affective instead of being representational and propositional, and facilitates participatory communication rather than propositional communication for exchanging information ( Cross, 2011 ). The emphasis on the social aspect, especially interaction as central to music, beside affective aspects was made by several researchers (e.g., Cross, 2011 , 2012 ; Seifert et al, 2013 ).…”

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Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?

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Boeckx

2015

Front. Psychol.

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It is often claimed that music and language share a process of hierarchical structure building, a mental “syntax.” Although several lines of research point to commonalities, and possibly a shared syntactic component, differences between “language syntax” and “music syntax” can also be found at several levels: conveyed meaning, and the atoms of combination, for example. To bring music and language closer to one another, some researchers have suggested a comparison between music and phonology (“phonological syntax”), but here too, one quickly arrives at a situation of intriguing similarities and obvious differences. In this paper, we suggest that a fruitful comparison between the two domains could benefit from taking the grammar of action into account. In particular, we suggest that what is called “syntax” can be investigated in terms of goal of action, action planning, motor control, and sensory-motor integration. At this level of comparison, we suggest that some of the differences between language and music could be explained in terms of different goals reflected in the hierarchical structures of action planning: the hierarchical structures of music arise to achieve goals with a strong relation to the affective-gestural system encoding tension-relaxation patterns as well as socio-intentional system, whereas hierarchical structures in language are embedded in a conceptual system that gives rise to compositional meaning. Similarities between music and language are most clear in the way several hierarchical plans for executing action are processed in time and sequentially integrated to achieve various goals.

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“…New insights into and stimulation of research on aesthetics and music are offered by actionoriented approaches and situated cognition (Robbins & Aydede, 2009;Seifert, 2011;Seifert et al, 2013), affective computing (Gökçay & Yildirim, 2011;Scherer, Bänziger, & Roesch, 2010), human-robot interaction (Dautenhahn, 2007), and musical robotics (Solis & Ng, 2011)--or more generally, research on social human-agent interaction, in particular in New Media Art and entertainment-in connection with cultural and social cognitive neuroscience (Han, Northoff, Vogeley, Wexler, Kitayama, & Varnum, 2013) as well as phenomenological approaches in experimental research (cf. Albertazzi, 2013).…”

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Empirical Aesthetics, Computational Cognitive Modeling, and Experimental Phenomenology: Methodological remarks on “Shaping and Co-Shaping Forms of Vitality in Music: Beyond Cognitivist and Emotivist Approaches to Musical Expressiveness” by Jin Hyun Kim

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2013

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The core ideas of the proposed framework for empirical aesthetics are interpreted as focusing on processes, interaction, and phenomenological experience. This commentary first touches on some methodological impediments to developing theories of processing and interaction, and emphasizes the necessity of computational cognitive modeling using robots to test the empirical adequacy of such theories. Further, the importance of developing and integrating phenomenological methods into current experimental research is stressed, using experimental phenomenology as reference. Situated cognition, affective computing, human-robot interaction research, computational cognitive modeling and social and cultural neuroscience are noted as providing relevant insight into the empirical adequacy of current theories of cognitive and emotional processing. In the near future these fields will have a stimulating impact on empirical aesthetics and research on music and the mind.

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Semantics of Internal and External Worlds

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Primates, computation, and the path to language

Primates, computation, and the path to language

Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?

Empirical Aesthetics, Computational Cognitive Modeling, and Experimental Phenomenology: Methodological remarks on “Shaping and Co-Shaping Forms of Vitality in Music: Beyond Cognitivist and Emotivist Approaches to Musical Expressiveness” by Jin Hyun Kim

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