Embodied cognition through cultural interaction

In this short paper we describe a robotic setup to study the self-organization of concep- tualisation and language. What distinguishes this project from others is that we envision a robot with speci c cognitive capacities, but without resort- ing to any pre-programmed representations or conceptualisations. The key to this all is self-organization and enculturation. We re- port preliminary results on learning motor be- haviours through imitation, and sketch how the language plays a pivoting role in con- structing world representations.