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The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition
Published on: February 19, 2018
Neither neural networks nor the language-of-thought alone make a complete game
Iris Oved1, Nikhil Krishnaswamy2, James Pustejovsky3
1Independent Scholar, 911 Central Ave; San Francisco, CA, USA irisoved@gmail.com, irisoved@paradoxlab.org.
Abstract:
Cognitive science has evolved since early disputes between radical empiricism and radical nativism. The authors are reacting to the revival of radical empiricism spurred by recent successes in deep neural network (NN) models. We agree that language-like mental representations (language-of-thoughts [LoTs]) are part of the best game in town, but they cannot be understood independent of the other players.
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