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in the tiniest house of time: parametric constraints in evolutionary models of symbolization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

chris westbury
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of alberta, edmonton t6g 2e9, alberta, canadachrisw@ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/
geoff hollis
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of alberta, edmonton t6g 2e9, alberta, canadachrisw@ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/

Abstract

steels & belpaeme (s&b) describe the role of genetic evolution in linguistic category sharing among a population of agents. we consider their methodology and conclude that, although it is plausible that genetic evolution is sufficient for such tasks, there is a bias in the presented work for such a conclusion to be reached. we suggest ways to eliminate this bias and make the model more convincingly relevant to the cognitive sciences.

Type
open peer commentary
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press

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