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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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The Coevolution of Language, Brains, and Technology
TL;DR: As illustrated in Fig. 5.1, estimates for the timing of the emergence of language in humans vary dramatically, from as recently as 100,000 years ago to more than 3 million years.
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The Cerebral Cortex and the Songs of Homer: When Neuroscience Meets History and Literature.
TL;DR: Homer's poetry in the light of modern achievements in neuroscience has been examined in this paper , showing that the underlying cognitive functions required a close interplay of memory and language skills, supported by the musical and rhythmic cadence of Homeric verse.
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Rudolf Botha & Martin Everaert (eds.), The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference (Studies in the Evolution of Language 17). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii +334.
TL;DR: Botha and Everaert as mentioned in this paper, The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference, presented a comprehensive review of the evolution of language in the human language.
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Linguistic analogy for creativity and the origin of language
TL;DR: The authors found that linguistic analogy, which applies linguistic rules extendedly, is very critical for language acquisition and meaning change, and that inferences based on the recognition of similarity and contingency among particular meanings can realize unidirectional meaning change.
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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.