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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  and
geoff hollis
chris westbury
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of alberta, edmonton t6g 2e9, alberta, [email protected] http://www.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/
geoff hollis
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of alberta, edmonton t6g 2e9, alberta, [email protected] http://www.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/
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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
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 513 - 514
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press

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