Integrating the Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Transmission of Novel Communication Systems

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 956-961

  Theisen White, Carrie ^a   Kirby, Simon ^b   Oberlander, Jon ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

compositionality; horizontal transmission; iterated learning; systematic compositionality; systematicity; vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; COMPOSITIONALITY; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSIONS; ITERATED LEARNING; SYSTEMATIC COMPOSITIONALITY; SYSTEMATICITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84921601431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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