The evolution of frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-328

  Reali, Florencia ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian models; Frequency distributions; Iterated learning; Language acquisition; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL BIAS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SIMULATION;

BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349178599     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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