Coevolution of learning and data-acquisition mechanisms: A model for cognitive evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1603, 2012, Pages 2686-2694

  Lotem, Arnon ^a   Halpern, Joseph Y ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative cognition; Data acquisition; Evolution of learning; Innate template; Language acquisition; Learning of structured data

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COEVOLUTION; COGNITION; DATA ACQUISITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84865425296     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0213     Document Type: Article

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