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This paper deals with symbol formation, from a cognitive point of view, through a connectionist model.
To give an idea of our aim, let us consider the metaphor of learning to play tennis. Two knowledge forms are involved:
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implicit knowledge, e.g. sensori-motor associations; this knowledge is subsymbolic
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explicit knowledge, e.g. a teacher giving verbal advice, which makes use of symbols.
Learned knowledge consists of a combination of subsymbolic and symbolic items. More than a juxtaposition, this combination involves grounding symbols into a subsymbolic substratum. This leads us to connectionist modelling which is considered as the common framework for both kinds of knowledge.
This research was supported by French CNRS “Réseaau Cogni-Centre” and “GDR 957”. This paper is published by courtesy of HERMES editor whos published a previous French version in “Technique et Science Informatiques” Vol. 12, no. 3, 1993, pp. 347–369.
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Grumbach, A. (1996). Grounding Symbols into Perceptions. In: Mc Kevitt, P. (eds) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1639-5_16
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