cultural evolution | Alberto Acerbi

cultural evolution

Social Facilitation on the Development of Foraging Behaviors in a Population of Autonomous Robots

In this paper we propose an adaptive algorithm based on a combination of selective reproduction, individual learning, and social learning. Social learning consists of a simple facilitation process that regulates the strength of individual learning on …

Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Embodied and Situated Agents

In this paper we investigate whether social learning or the combination of individual and social learning can provide an adaptive advantage for artificial embodied agents that have to develop behavioural abilities that are too difficult or too costly …

Adaptation and Social Facilitation in a Population of Autonomous Robots

In this paper we present an evolutionary simulation in which a population of 10 mobile robots has to develop a simple behavior consisting in the discrimination of two different foraging areas present in the environment. We show that, given a minimal …

Cultural transmission between and within generations

We describe some simulations that compare cultural transmission between and within generations (inter-generational vs intra-generational transmission) in populations of embodied agents controlled by neural networks. Our results suggest that …

Antropologia cognitiva e modularità della mente: il caso della folkbiology

Trasmissibilità culturale di tratti discreti e continui

Antropologia cognitiva: uno stato dell'arte

Esiste una folkanthropology? E, se esiste, a chi interessa?

La mente nella cultura: cognizione ed analisi dei fatti culturali