Language Re-Entrance and the 'Inner Voice'

Author: Steels L.1

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 10, Numbers 4-5, 2003 , pp. 173-185(13)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Key:
Free Content - Free Content
New Content - New Content
Subscribed Content - Subscribed Content
Free Trial Content - Free Trial Content

Abstract:

As soon as we stop talking aloud, we seem to experience a kind of 'inner voice', a steady stream of verbal fragments expressing ongoing thoughts. What kind of information processing structures are required to explain such a phenomenon? Why would an 'inner voice' be useful? How could it have arisen? This paper explores these questions and reports briefly some computational experiments to help elucidate them.

Keywords: consciousness; origins of language; inner voice; robotic models

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Free University of Brussels, VUB AI Laboratory, 10G-725, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.., Email: steels@arti.vub.ac.be

The full text electronic article is available for purchase. You will be able to download the full text electronic article after payment.

$29.05 plus tax      Refund Policy

 

OR

Back to top

Key:
Free Content - Free Content
New Content - New Content
Subscribed Content - Subscribed Content
Free Trial Content - Free Trial Content
Share this item with others: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Page Help Click here for Page Help
Shopping cart
Tools
Sign in






Need to register?
Sign up here
Text size: A | A | A | A