Modeling the evolution of communication: From stimulus associations to grounded symbolic associations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1674, Issue , 1999, Pages 654-663

  Cangelosi, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SYNTACTICS;

CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; NEURAL NETWORKS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ASSOCIATION; ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES; SYNTACTIC RULES; WORD COMBINATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84957628289     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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