Whether animal vocalizations have the potential to communicate information regarding
ongoing external events or objects has received considerable attention over the last four …

Abstract Language is a uniquely human trait, and questions of how and why it evolved have
been intriguing scientists for years. Nonhuman primates (primates) are our closest living …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our
world. He uses a variety of tools—theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and …

Alarm calls are interesting for both proximate and ultimate reasons. Because of their usually
close connection with relevant events in the environment, they can reveal much about the …

People use language to influence others' beliefs and actions. Yet models of communication
have diverged along these lines, formalizing the speaker's objective in terms of either the …

Consciousness is not a process in the brain but a kind of behavior that, of course, is
controlled by the brain like any other behavior. Human consciousness emerges on the …

Complex adaptive systems consist of a large number of interacting agents. Agents are goal-
directed, cognitive individuals capable of perception, information processing and action …

Communication involves a pair of behaviours—a signal and a response—that are
functionally interdependent. Consequently, the emergence of communication involves a …

Speakers communicate to influence their partner's beliefs and shape their actions. Belief-
and action-based objectives have been explored independently in recent computational …