Population heterogeneity and color stimulus heterogeneity in agent-based color categorization

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 680-700

  Komarova, Natalia L ^a   Jameson, Kimberly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dichromat color naming; Discrimination similarity game; Environmental color distributions; Evolutionary game theory; Learning algorithm; Population inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

COLOR; GAME THEORY; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COLOR VISION TEST; CULTURAL FACTOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 47849130337     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.03.030     Document Type: Article

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