The effects of cultural learning in populations of neural networks

Artificial Life

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-67

  Curran, Dara ^a   O'Riordan, Colm ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Cultural learning; Games; Neural networks; Sequential decision tasks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAME THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; CULTURAL LEARNING; SEQUENTIAL DECISION TASKS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 33846147633     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2007.13.1.45     Document Type: Article

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