Understanding Infants’ Language Development in Relation to Levels of Consciousness: An Approach in Building up an Agent-based Model
Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Language development in infants is a dynamic process that involves the emergence and increase of consciousness, with which built-in learning mechanisms make infants' imitation and interaction with their surroundings become socially meaningful.Taking Gao & Holland's (2008, 2013) statements of levels of consciousness for language development as the theoretical guideline, this study proposes a rule-based, signal-processing agent-based model to explore the dynamics of language development in early infants.In this model, we assume that an infant's rule-based learning behaviors can be featured by different levels of consciousness and that its adaptation processes can be explained in relation to levels of consciousness.In this paper we will discuss properties of consciousness at different levels and identify the influencing factors for reaching them.Our ultimate goal in building up the model is to understand the processes of language development with an approach that can better reflect reality.
Authors: Helena Hong Gao, Can Guo
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2405472916