Modelling the coevolution of joint attention and language

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1747, 2012, Pages 4643-4651

  Gong, Tao ^a   Shuai, Lan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Computer simulation; Joint attention; Language origin; Ratchet effect

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMINID; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84867535235     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1431     Document Type: Article

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