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The evolution of the capacity for language: the ecological context and adaptive value of a process of cognitive hijacking
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Language Learning as Language Use: Statistically-based Chunking in Development
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Acoustic sequences in non-human animals : a tutorial review and prospectus
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Acoustic Sequences in Non-human Animals: A Tutorial Review and Prospectus
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In: Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications (2016)
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Acoustic sequences in nonâ human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus
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Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.
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Juvenile zebra finches learn the underlying structural regularities of their fathers’ song
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Evolution of protolinguistic abilities as a by-product of learning to forage in structured environments
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The skills required for the learning and use of language are the focus of extensive research, and their evolutionary origins are widely debated. Using agent-based simulations in a range of virtual environments, we demonstrate that challenges of foraging for food can select for cognitive mechanisms supporting complex, hierarchical, sequential learning, the need for which arises in language acquisition. Building on previous work, where we explored the conditions under which reinforcement learning is out-competed by seldom-reinforced continuous learning that constructs a network model of the environment, we now show that realistic features of the foraging environment can select for two critical advances: (i) chunking of meaningful sequences found in the data, leading to representations composed of units that better fit the prevalent statistical patterns in the environment; and (ii) generalization across units based on their contextual similarity. Importantly, these learning processes, which in our framework evolved for making better foraging decisions, had been earlier shown to reproduce a range of findings in language learning in humans. Thus, our results suggest a possible evolutionary trajectory that may have led from basic learning mechanisms to complex hierarchical sequential learning that can support advanced cognitive abilities of the kind needed for language acquisition.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528540/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26156764 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0353
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The evolution of continuous learning of the structure of the environment
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