LEC talk, August 19, Alex Papadopoulos-Korfiatis

By Kevin | September 19, 2014

Tuesday 19th August 11.00-12.30, room 1.17 Dugald Stewart Building

Alex Papadopoulos-Korfiatis

A dynamical systems approach to iterated learning

Both dynamical systems accounts of cognition and the Iterated Learning model of language evolution can be regarded as holistic, systemic approaches that base their explanatory power on the interaction of a number of factors.

A potential combination of the two can be beneficial for both but a number of changes must be made to the standard IL model to make it compatible with the constraints that dynamical accounts of cognition introduce.

In this talk I’ll describe the above constraints and present an experimental set-up based on a coordination task that takes them into account.