Modeling social learning of language and skills

Artificial Life

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 289-309

  Vogt, Paul ^a   Haasdijk, Evert ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Language evolution; Language games; Population based adaptive systems; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MODELING LANGUAGES; SCAFFOLDS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE GAMES; MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITIES; POPULATION STRUCTURES; SOCIAL LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GAME; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THINKING;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THINKING;

EID: 77957597520     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00007     Document Type: Article

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