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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Reznikova, Zhanna Ilʹinichna
Titre(s) : Studying animal languages without translation [Texte électronique] : an insight from ants / Zhanna Reznikova
Publication : Cham : Springer, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory
is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she
pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and "linguistic"
capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the
complexity of transmitted messages. Animals' communication systems and cognitive abilities
have long-since been a topic of particular interest to biologists, psychologists,
linguists, and many others, including researchers in the fields of robotics and artificial
intelligence. The main difficulties in the analysis of animal language have to date
been predominantly methodological in nature. Addressing this perennial problem, the
elaborated experimental paradigm presented here has been applied to ants, and can
be extended to other social species of animals that have the need to memorize and
relay complex "messages". Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in
the study of natural communications in the wild
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : VIII-92 p.
Sujet(s) : Animaux -- Sons
Communication animale
Indice(s) Dewey :
590.14 (23e éd.) = Animaux - Langage et communication
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319449180. - ISBN 3319449184. - ISBN 9783319449166 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45338265c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45338265
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Communication, speech and language in human- and non-human animals. The complexity
of communication systems and intelligence in animals ; Intelligent communication:
can animals exchange meaningful messages? ; Cracking animals codes ; Direct dialogs
with animals by means of intermediary languages ; Ants and Bits ; Why bits? Information
Theory as a tool for studying natural communication systems ; Why ants? Reliable
agents for information transmission ; Ants on the Binary Tree ; The entropy ; based
approach ; The Kolmogorov Complexity-based approach ; Ants can compress information
; Numerical competence in animals with an insight from ant "language" ; Criteria
of numerical competence for comparative studies ; Quantitative judgments in animals
; Advanced numerical abilities ; Information Theory as a tool for studying wild arithmetic
on the base of their own communications ; An insight from ant "language": flexibility
of communication as a basis for arithmetic skills.
