Environmental variability and the emergence of meaning: Simulational studies across imitation, genetic algorithms, and neural networks

Artificial Cognition Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 284-325

  Grim, Patrick ^a   Kokalis, Trina ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84899185144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-111-7.ch010     Document Type: Chapter

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