The evolution of coding in signaling games

Theory and Decision

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-237

  Barrett, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of language; Evolutionary game theory; Signaling games

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIDGE; DAVID LEWIS; EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; HARVARD UNIVERSITY; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS; SIGNALING GAME; SIGNALING GAMES; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; TERM LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SIGNALING; SYNTACTICS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 68149175144     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-007-9064-0     Document Type: Article

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