How to create a human communication system: A theoretical model

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey J Lister ◽  
Nicolas Fay
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
System A ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interactive Feedback ◽  
Single Modality

Following a synthesis of naturalistic and experimental studies of language creation, we propose a theoretical model that describes the process through which human communication systems might arise and evolve. Three key processes are proposed that give rise to effective, efficient and shared human communication systems: 1) motivated signs that directly resemble their meaning facilitate cognitive alignment, improving communication success; 2) behavioral alignment onto an inventory of shared sign-to-meaning mappings bolsters cognitive alignment between interacting partners; 3) sign refinement, through interactive feedback, enhances the efficiency of the evolving communication system. By integrating the findings across a range of diverse studies, we propose a theoretical model of the process through which the earliest human communication systems might have arisen and evolved. Importantly, because our model is not bound to a single modality it can describe the creation of shared sign systems across a range of contexts, informing theories of language creation and evolution.

How to create a human communication system

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey J. Lister ◽  
Nicolas Fay
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interactive Feedback ◽  
Single Modality

Following a synthesis of naturalistic and experimental studies of language creation, we propose a theoretical model that describes the process through which human communication systems might arise and evolve. Three key processes are proposed that give rise to effective, efficient and shared human communication systems: (1) motivated signs that directly resemble their meaning facilitate cognitive alignment, improving communication success; (2) behavioral alignment onto an inventory of shared sign-to-meaning mappings bolsters cognitive alignment between interacting partners; (3) sign refinement, through interactive feedback, enhances the efficiency of the evolving communication system. By integrating the findings across a range of diverse studies, we propose a theoretical model of the process through which the earliest human communication systems might have arisen and evolved. Importantly, because our model is not bound to a single modality it can describe the creation of shared sign systems across a range of contexts, informing theories of language creation and evolution.

scholarly journals On the Security of LEO Satellite Communication Systems: Vulnerabilities, Countermeasures, and Future Trends

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingyue Yue ◽  
Jianping An ◽  
Jiankang Zhang ◽  
Gaofeng Pan ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Satellite Communication ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Satellite Communication System ◽  
Development Status ◽  
System A ◽  
Leo Satellite

<div>In view of the development status of the security of LEO satellite communication system, a comprehensive review, induction, and summary is carried out.<br></div>

The Creation of a Communication System: A Study of Deaf Children of Hearing Parents

1975 ◽  
Vol 1008 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Goldin-Meadow ◽  
Heidi Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
System A ◽  
Hearing Parents ◽  
The Creation

Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cornish
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Shared Task ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Adaptive Structure ◽  
The Way

Recent work on the emergence and evolution of human communication has focused on getting novel systems to evolve from scratch in the laboratory. Many of these studies have adopted an interactive construction approach, whereby pairs of participants repeatedly interact with one another to gradually develop their own communication system whilst engaged in some shared task. This paper describes four recent studies that take a different approach, showing how adaptive structure can emerge purely as a result of cultural transmission through single chains of learners. By removing elements of interactive communication and focusing only on the way in which language is repeatedly acquired by learners, we hope to gain a better understanding of how useful structural properties of language could have emerged without being intentionally designed or innovated.

A Construction Method of LDPC Codes for Space Optical Communications Based on Protograph

2014 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 791-794
Author(s):  
Qian Hua Zhang ◽  
Jian Wu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Optical Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Ldpc Codes ◽  
Construction Method ◽  
Optical Communication System ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
System A ◽  
Space Optical Communication

In order to meet the requirements of low bit error-rate of the channel code in the space optical communication system, a construction method of low density parity check ( LDPC) codes with excellent performance is proposed based on protograph and quasi-cyclic expansion. It can be applied in high-speed encoding and decoding with efficient quasi-cyclic expansion. According to the proposed method, a LDPC ( 8832, 1472) suitable for the space optical communication system is constructed, in which the LDPC codes of the protograph perform very well. Simulation shows that the LDPC codes have superior error-correction performance and show no sign of error floor when the BER is in the order of 10-9, which are suitable for the long-distance space optical communication systems.

Iconicity

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Fay ◽  
Mark Ellison ◽  
Simon Garrod
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Gestural Communication ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Graphical Communication ◽  
Iconic Signs

This paper explores the role of iconicity in spoken language and other human communication systems. First, we concentrate on graphical and gestural communication and show how semantically motivated iconic signs play an important role in creating such communication systems from scratch. We then consider how iconic signs tend to become simplified and symbolic as the communication system matures and argue that this process is driven by repeated interactive use of the signs. We then consider evidence for iconicity at the level of the system in graphical communication and finally draw comparisons between iconicity in graphical and gestural communication systems and in spoken language.

scholarly journals The fitness and functionality of culturally evolved communication systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 363 (1509) ◽  
pp. 3553-3561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Fay ◽  
Simon Garrod ◽  
Leo Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Global Alignment ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Detection Experiment ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Communication Task ◽  
Graphical Communication ◽  
Efficient Decoding

This paper assesses whether human communication systems undergo the same progressive adaptation seen in animal communication systems and concrete artefacts. Four experiments compared the fitness of ad hoc sign systems created under different conditions when participants play a graphical communication task. Experiment 1 demonstrated that when participants are organized into interacting communities, a series of signs evolve that enhance individual learning and promote efficient decoding. No such benefits are found for signs that result from the local interactions of isolated pairs of interlocutors. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that the decoding benefits associated with community evolved signs cannot be attributed to superior sign encoding or detection. Experiment 4 revealed that naive overseers were better able to identify the meaning of community evolved signs when compared with isolated pair developed signs. Hence, the decoding benefits for community evolved signs arise from their greater residual iconicity. We argue that community evolved sign systems undergo a process of communicative selection and adaptation that promotes optimized sign systems. This results from the interplay between sign diversity and a global alignment constraint; pairwise interaction introduces a range of competing signs and the need to globally align on a single sign-meaning mapping for each referent applies selection pressure.

scholarly journals A behavioral task for exploring dynamics of communication system in dilemma situations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Inoue ◽  
Junya Morita
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Behavioral Task ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Linguistic Ability ◽  
Machiavellian Intelligence

AbstractThis research proposes a behavioral task to demonstrate the process of evolution of human communication systems based on the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis, claiming that human sophisticated social intelligence such as linguistic ability has been formed through behaviors that maximize self-interest in a competitive social situation. The proposed task was designed as a dilemma game involving messaging to establish Machiavellian communication. The game was developed based on experimental semiotics, a method that generates novel artificial language and examines language functions. Through the proposed task, pairs of participants attach meanings to arbitral graphic symbols forming novel communication systems. In case studies using this task, participants modified or ambiguated the communication system by means of a dilemma between sharing and monopolizing rewards. The result suggests that the proposed game causes ambiguation of the communication system that functions equivocally.

scholarly journals On the Security of LEO Satellite Communication Systems: Vulnerabilities, Countermeasures, and Future Trends

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingyue Yue ◽  
Jianping An ◽  
Jiankang Zhang ◽  
Gaofeng Pan ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Satellite Communication ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Satellite Communication System ◽  
Development Status ◽  
System A ◽  
Leo Satellite

<div>In view of the development status of the security of LEO satellite communication system, a comprehensive review, induction, and summary is carried out.<br></div>

Some results of the implementation of the priority project «creating a new model of a medical organization that provides primary health care»: problems and prospects

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Alexey Smyshlyaev ◽  
Maria Sadovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Primary Health Care System ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
New Model ◽  
System A ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Care Problems

Optimization of the activities of medical organizations providing primary health care requires the development of new organizational and functional models. The introduction of new approaches to organizing the activities of medical organizations is primarily a step towards patients. The new model is a patient-oriented medical organization, the management of which is based on the use of a process-oriented approach and «lean» technologies. Since 2019, within the framework of the federal project «Development of a primary health care system,» a project has been launched to introduce the «New Model of a Medical Organization Providing Primary Health Care». The implementation of the project is scheduled for 2019-2024 inclusive. The creation and replication of the «new model» is planned for the participation of all subjects of the Russian Federation. The introduction of lean technology methods in the work of medical organizations has reduced the waiting time for doctors, optimized the burden on doctors, reduced the time for obtaining research results, streamlining the process of moving a patient within a medical organization. The creation of an effective quality management system in medical organizations is achieved through the phased implementation of lean-technology.

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