3 papers
physics.soc-ph2018
Rethinking animal social complexity measures with the help of complex systems concepts
Elizabeth A. Hobson, Vanessa Ferdinand, Artemy Kolchinsky +1
Explaining how and why some species evolved to have more complex social structures than others has been a long-term goal for many researchers in animal behavior because it would pr…
cs.CL2017
The cognitive roots of regularization in language
Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Regularization occurs when the output a learner produces is less variable than the linguistic data they observed. In an artificial language learning experiment, we show that there…
physics.soc-ph2016
Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
Andrew Berdahl, Christa Brelsford, Caterina De Bacco +12
Pathogens can spread epidemically through populations. Beneficial contagions, such as viruses that enhance host survival or technological innovations that improve quality of life,…