Language Evolution and Computation » admin https://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec The home of the LEC research unit at the University of Edinburgh Tue, 10 May 2016 14:39:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Chrissy Cuskley’s work featured in New Scientist https://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/2011/07/chrissy-cuskleys-work-featured-in-new-scientist/ https://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/2011/07/chrissy-cuskleys-work-featured-in-new-scientist/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:09:40 +0000 admin http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/?p=177 Chrissy Cuskley‘s research concerns the way in which cross-modal connections that we all share might have provided a starting point for the evolution of language by giving a non-arbitrary basis for the eventual evolution of symbols. Her experimental work looking at the connections between various senses and linguistic stimuli is featured on the cover of this week’s New Scientist magazine.

Have a look at the New Scientist article, and one of our papers (Simner, Cuskley & Kirby, 2010) for more information.

]]> https://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/2011/07/chrissy-cuskleys-work-featured-in-new-scientist/feed/ 0 LEC talk: Vanessa Ferdinand https://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/2011/02/lec-talk-vanessa-ferdinand/ https://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/2011/02/lec-talk-vanessa-ferdinand/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:31:50 +0000 admin http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/?p=3 Next Tuesday, Vanessa will be talking about the work she is planning to do as part of her PhD and summarising some of the preliminary research she has already undertaken. The title of her talk will be: “Towards a general framework for cultural evolution“.

Tuesday, 11-12.30 in Medical School G.16.

We’ll be going for lunch at Bar Kohl afterwards.

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