title: Prelinguistic agents will form only egocentric representations.
abstract: The representations formed by the ventral and dorsal streams of a prelinguistic agent will tend to be too qualitatively similar to support the distinct roles required by PREDICATE(x) structure. We suggest that the attachment of qualities to objects is not a product of the combination of these separate processing streams, but is instead a part of the processing required in each. In addition, we suggest that the formation of objective predicates is inextricably bound up with the emergence of language itself, and so cannot be cleanly identified with any prelinguistic cognitive capacities.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 anderson@cs.umd.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/~anderson.
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oates