{"pk":27137,"title":"Understanding the Role of Perception in the Evolution of Human Language","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a flexible modeling framework forstudying the role of perception in language learning and lan-guage evolution. This is achieved by augmenting some noveland some existing evolutionary signaling game models withexisting techniques in machine learning and cognitive science.The result is a “grounded” signaling game in which agentsmust extract relevant information from their environment viaa cognitive processing mechanism, then learn to communi-cate that information with each other. The choice of cogni-tive processing mechanism is left as a free parameter, allow-ing the model to be tailored to a wide variety of problemsand tasks. We present results from simulations using both aBayesian perception model and a neural network based per-ception model, which demonstrate how perception can “pre-process” environmental data in a way that is well suited forcommunication. Lastly, we discuss how the model can be ex-tended to study other roles that perception may play in lan-guage learning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Evolutionary Signaling Games"},{"word":"perception"},{"word":"language evolution"},{"word":"Reinforcement Learning"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g13m5gf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Isaac","middle_name":"","last_name":"Davis","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27137/galley/16773/download/"}]}