Understanding linguistic evolution by visualizing the emergence of topographic mappings

Artificial Life

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-242

  Brighton, Henry ^a,b   Kirby, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Language; Learning; Replicators; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAP SYMBOLS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISUALIZATION;

LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION; REPLICATORS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745155090     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2006.12.2.229     Document Type: Article

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