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  A robustness approach to theory building: A case study of language evolution

Irvine, L., Roberts, S. G., & Kirby, S. (2013). A robustness approach to theory building: A case study of language evolution. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013) (pp. 2614-2619). Retrieved from http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0472/index.html.

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Irvine, Liz1, Autor
Roberts, Sean G.2, Autor           
Kirby, Simon3, Autor
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1Philosophy of Neuroscience, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, ou_persistent22              
2Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792548              
3Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, School of Philosophy, Psychology Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, ou_persistent22              

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Schlagwörter: Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Robustness
 Zusammenfassung: Models of cognitive processes often include simplifications, idealisations, and fictionalisations, so how should we learn about cognitive processes from such models? Particularly in cognitive science, when many features of the target system are unknown, it is not always clear which simplifications, idealisations, and so on, are appropriate for a research question, and which are highly misleading. Here we use a case-study from studies of language evolution, and ideas from philosophy of science, to illustrate a robustness approach to learning from models. Robust properties are those that arise across a range of models, simulations and experiments, and can be used to identify key causal structures in the models, and the phenomenon, under investigation. For example, in studies of language evolution, the emergence of compositional structure is a robust property across models, simulations and experiments of cultural transmission, but only under pressures for learnability and expressivity. This arguably illustrates the principles underlying real cases of language evolution. We provide an outline of the robustness approach, including its limitations, and suggest that this methodology can be productively used throughout cognitive science. Perhaps of most importance, it suggests that different modelling frameworks should be used as tools to identify the abstract properties of a system, rather than being definitive expressions of theories.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 20132013-07-292013-07-29
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Titel: the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013)
Veranstaltungsort: Berlin
Start-/Enddatum: 2013-07-31 - 2013-08-03

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Titel: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013)
Genre der Quelle: Konferenzband
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Knauff, Markus, Herausgeber
Pauen, Michael, Herausgeber
Sebanz, Natalie, Herausgeber
Wachsmuth, Ipke, Herausgeber
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