The cultural evolution of human communication systems in different sized populations: usability trumps learnability.

This study examines the intergenerational transfer of human communication systems. It tests if human communication systems evolve to be easy to learn or easy to use (or both), and how population size affects learnability and usability. Using an experimental-semiotic task, we find that human communic...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Nicolas Fay, T Mark Ellison
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
Materias:
R
Q
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/40111badfeb846f6b1bd45aa7c159fbc
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!