Titre :	Evolution of communication systems: a comparative approach
Type de document :	livre
Auteurs :	Oller, D.K.(Ed.) ; Griebel, U.(Ed.)
Editeur :	Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press
Année de publication :	2004
Collection :	The Vienna series in theoretical biology
Importance :	338 p.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-262-15111-5
Note générale :	Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 10/04/2008
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Animal communication  Behaviour  Evolution  Human evolution  Language
Résumé :	The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisciplinary enterprise. In this volume, scientists engaged in the fields of evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, the cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling come together to explore a comparative approach to the evolution of communication systems. The comparisons range from parrot talk to squid skin displays, from human language to Aibo the robot dog's language learning, and from monkey babbling to the newborn human infant cry. The authors explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding the emergence of human language, which they propose to be intricately connected with drastic changes in human lifestyle. While it is not yet clear what the physical environmental circumstances were that fostered social changes in the hominid line, the volume offers converging evidence and theory from several lines of research suggesting that language depended upon the restructuring of ancient human social groups. The volume also offers new theoretical treatments of both primitive communication systems and human language, providing new perspectives on how to recognize both their similarities and their differences. Explorations of new technologies in robotics, neural network modeling and pattern recognition offer many opportunities to simulate and evaluate theoretical proposals. [Résumé éditeur]
Note de contenu :	Hbk;
En ligne :	http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10355&mode=toc

Evolution of communication systems: a comparative approach [livre] / Oller, D.K.(Ed.) ; Griebel, U.(Ed.) . - Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2004 . - 338 p.. - (The Vienna series in theoretical biology) .
ISBN : 978-0-262-15111-5
Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 10/04/2008
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Mots-clés :	Animal communication  Behaviour  Evolution  Human evolution  Language
Résumé :	The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisciplinary enterprise. In this volume, scientists engaged in the fields of evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, the cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling come together to explore a comparative approach to the evolution of communication systems. The comparisons range from parrot talk to squid skin displays, from human language to Aibo the robot dog's language learning, and from monkey babbling to the newborn human infant cry. The authors explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding the emergence of human language, which they propose to be intricately connected with drastic changes in human lifestyle. While it is not yet clear what the physical environmental circumstances were that fostered social changes in the hominid line, the volume offers converging evidence and theory from several lines of research suggesting that language depended upon the restructuring of ancient human social groups. The volume also offers new theoretical treatments of both primitive communication systems and human language, providing new perspectives on how to recognize both their similarities and their differences. Explorations of new technologies in robotics, neural network modeling and pattern recognition offer many opportunities to simulate and evaluate theoretical proposals. [Résumé éditeur]
Note de contenu :	Hbk;
En ligne :	http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10355&mode=toc