Ontogenetic ritualization of primate gesture as a case study in dyadic brain modeling

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-109

  Gasser, Brad ^a   Cartmill, Erica A ^b   Arbib, Michael A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Gesture; Neuroinformatics; Ontogenetic ritualization; Primate; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GESTURE; HOMINID; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GESTURES; HOMINIDAE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84894475879     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9182-5     Document Type: Article

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