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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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Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition.
TL;DR: A neurally-grounded framework for theoretical cognitive science is within reach that can move beyond polarized debates and provide a more adequate theoretical future for cognitive biology.
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Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality
TL;DR: A multicomponent perspective on musicality that emphasizes its constituent capacities, development and neural cognitive specificity is an excellent starting point for a research programme aimed at illuminating the origins and evolution of musical behaviour as an autonomous trait.
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How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution
TL;DR: This chapter discusses gesture and the origin of language, how it evolved (in part) - the Growth Point, and Ontogenesis in evolution - evolution in ontogenesis.
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Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals
Simon W. Townsend,Simon W. Townsend,Sonja E. Koski,Sonja E. Koski,Richard W. Byrne,Katie E. Slocombe,Balthasar Bickel,Markus Boeckle,Ines Braga Goncalves,Judith M. Burkart,Tom P. Flower,Florence Gaunet,Hans Johann Glock,Thibaud Gruber,David A. W. A. M. Jansen,Katja Liebal,Angelika Linke,Ádám Miklósi,Richard Moore,Carel P. van Schaik,Sabine Stoll,Alex L. Vail,Bridget M. Waller,Markus Wild,Klaus Zuberbühler,Klaus Zuberbühler,Marta B. Manser +26 more
TL;DR: A unified approach to intentional communication is revisited and structure intentional communication into a series of requirements, each of which can be operationalised, investigated empirically, and must be met for purposive, intentionally communicative acts to be demonstrated.
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Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution.
TL;DR: This special issue provides a concise overview of current models of language evolution, emphasizing the testable predictions that they make, along with overviews of the many sources of data available to test them, and concludes with my own multistage model of how different components of language could have evolved.
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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.