Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases
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Iterated learning: intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases.
Cultural transmission of information plays a central role in shaping human knowledge. Some of the most complex knowledge that people acquire, such as languages or cultural norms, can only be learned from other people, who themselves learned from previous generations. The prevalence of this process of "iterated learning" as a mode of cultural transmission raises the question of how it affects th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/bf03194066