Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach /

Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling. The search for origins of commu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Oller, D. Kimbrough, Griebel, Ulrike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Colección:Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Temas:
Communication > History.
Animal communication.
Human evolution.
Language and languages > Origin.
Animal Communication
Communication animale.
Êtres humains > Évolution.
Langage et langues > Origines.
Information > Histoire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Animal communication
Communication
Human evolution
Language and languages > Origin
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • Theoretical and methodological tools for comparison and evolutionary modeling of communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel
  • II. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: CONCEPTIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
  • On reading signs: some differences between us and the others / Ruth Garrett Millikan
  • Primitive content, translation, and the emergence of meaning in animal communication / William F. Harms
  • Underpinnings for a theory of communicative evolution / D. Kimbrough Oller
  • III. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
  • Social and cultural learning in the evolution of human communication / Luc Steels
  • The role of learning and development in language evolution: a connectionist perspective / Morten H. Christiansen, Rick Dale
  • Repeated patterns in behavior and other biological phenomena / Magnus S. Magnusson
  • IV. ANIMAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE BASIS
  • Social processes in the evolution of complex cognition and communication / Charles T. Snowdon
  • Human infant crying as an animal communication system: insights from an assessment/management approach / Donald H. Owings, Debra M. Zeifman
  • Evolution of communication from an Avian perspective / Irene M. Pepperberg
  • Cephalopod skin displays: from concealment to communication / Jennifer A. Mather
  • V. PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGE
  • The evolution of language: from signals to symbols to system / Chris Sinha
  • Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication / Peter Gärdenfors
  • Language, music, and laughter in evolutionary perspective / R.I.M. Dunbar
  • Kin selection and "mother tongues": a neglected component in language evolution / W. Tecumseh Fitch
  • Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language / James R. Hurford
  • How far is language beyond our grasp? A response to Hurford / Michael A. Arbib
  • IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • Directions for research in comparative communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Greibel.

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