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The Evolution of Language
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The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.About:
This article is published in New Scientist.The article was published on 2010-04-01. It has received 826 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biolinguistics.read more
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Emotion Communication Through Voice Modulation: Insights on Biological and Evolutionary Underpinnings of Language
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-species comparative approach to the anatomical principles governing emotional vocal production is presented, and the relative salience of emotional voice modulation and verbal content in emotional meaning processing is used as an indicator of the biological role of voice modulation in the emergence of language.
Dissertation
Domain-general perspectives on the neurocognitive specialization of language
TL;DR: A new framework to study the evolution of vocal learning abilities in connection with domain-general cognition is proposed, based on primate neural scaling rules and connectivity enhancements, and it is argued against comparative perspectives that only focus on animal vocalizations in order to explain human specificity.
Language evolution:Current status and future directions
Pablo Bernabeu,Paul Vogt +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the correspondence between certain perceptual features of events and different grammatical orders arising as participants acted out those events and found that the difference between body-based communication (gestures) and more disembodied communication (symbol matching) revealed a greater effect of the embodiment variable on the grammatical preferences.
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Genomic Imprinting As a Window into Human Language Evolution.
TL;DR: It is shown how parent‐of‐origin specific gene expression—or “genomic imprinting”—may provide an answer to whether investment into language is relatively selfish or altruistic, and a framework is developed that highlights avenues for using intragenomic conflicts to investigate the evolutionary drivers of language.
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Text2voronoi: An Image-driven Approach to Differential Diagnosis
TL;DR: A novel approach, called text2voronoi, for utilizing the paradigm of text visualization to reconstruct differential diagnosis as a task of text categorization and shows that this approach outperforms its counterpart based on the bag-of-words model.
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The Evolution of Cooperation
TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information
TL;DR: The theory provides us with a yardstick for calibrating the authors' stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of their subjects, and the concepts and measures provided by the theory provide a quantitative way of getting at some of these questions.
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Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities
TL;DR: A model of a system having a large number of simple equivalent components, based on aspects of neurobiology but readily adapted to integrated circuits, produces a content-addressable memory which correctly yields an entire memory from any subpart of sufficient size.
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Deterministic nonperiodic flow
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that nonperiodic solutions are ordinarily unstable with respect to small modifications, so that slightly differing initial states can evolve into considerably different states, and systems with bounded solutions are shown to possess bounded numerical solutions.
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The mathematical theory of communication
Claude E. Shannon,Warren Weaver +1 more
TL;DR: The Mathematical Theory of Communication (MTOC) as discussed by the authors was originally published as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago and has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings.