Exploring adaptive agency II: simulating the evolution of associative learning
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
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Adaptive Behavior
Massively parallel artificial intelligence
Learning and evolution in neural networks
Adaptive Behavior
Adaptive individuals in evolving populations: models and algorithms
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Effects of compression on language evolution
Artificial Life
Cooperative strategies and the evolution of communication
Artificial Life
Simulating the evolution of language
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Grounding the mirror system hypothesis for the evolution of the language-ready brain
Simulating the evolution of language
A unified simulation scenario for language development, evolution, and historical change
Simulating the evolution of language
Natural language from artificial life
Artificial Life
Autonomous Robots
Situated Grounded Word Semantics
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Evolution, learning, and instinct: 100 years of the baldwin effect
Evolutionary Computation
Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, andwords
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Development and the Baldwin effect
Artificial Life
Artificial Life
Simulated evolution of discourse with coupled recurrent networks
ACAL'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Australian conference on Progress in artificial life
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The Baldwin effect has been explicitly used by Pinker and Bloom as an explanation of the origins of language and the evolution of a language acquisition device. This article presents new simulations of an artificial life model for the evolution of compositional languages. It specifically addresses the role of cultural variation and of learning costs in the Baldwin effect for the evolution of language. Results show that when a high cost is associated with language learning, agents gradually assimilate in their genome some explicit features (e.g., lexical properties) of the specific language they are exposed to. When the structure of the language is allowed to vary through cultural transmission, Baldwinian processes cause, instead, the assimilation of a predisposition to learn, rather than any structural properties associated with a specific language. The analysis of the mechanisms underlying such a predisposition in terms of categorical perception supports Deacon's hypothesis regarding the Baldwinian inheritance of general underlying cognitive capabilities that serve language acquisition. This is in opposition to the thesis that argues for assimilation of structural properties needed for the specification of a full-blown language acquisition device.