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It is exciting times in animal communication. This is not just distributional information analysis in the sense that ‘tokens’ are grounded in other ‘tokens’. They’ve grounded these…

Given his penchant for exploring jumping techniques, it is probably unsurprising that Fosbury would retire to become an engineer! Cultural evolution (both in terms of materials and…

It’s hard not to see this angle as making the capacity for cultural evolution very fortunate for us (or unfortunate for other species). What other animals can exhaust primary food …

“Huh?” Is strong candidate, if you accept it is a word. Here is a fun talk in the subject https://youtu.be/rHHJ3hSppEA?feature=shared It seems the demands of asking for clarificati…

They have tried this with juvenile non-human primates! For example, Horner & Whiten (2005) tried this with 2-6 year old chimpanzees. Clay & Tennie (2017) tried this with juvenile b…

I wonder if this sort of model would lend itself well to program induction similar to this paper: https://web.mit.edu/cocosci/Papers/Science-2015-Lake-1332-8.... Having a mouth see…

Maybe, but I still found this fun to pass around the lab, haha.