The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks

Connection Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-84

  Smith, Kenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Cultural evolution; Language; Learning bias

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIONIST MODELS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); FORMAL LANGUAGES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SYNTACTICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0036025779     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090210164306     Document Type: Article

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