Rana computatrix to human language: Towards a computational neuroethology of language evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1811, 2003, Pages 2345-2379

  Arbib, Michael A ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Action oriented perception; Biologically inspired robotics; Computational neuroethology; Evolutionary modelling; Language evolution; Mirror system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142118018     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1248     Document Type: Article

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