What do animal signals mean?
What do animal signals mean?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.007
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Ryan, Michael J.
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作者：
Rendall, Drew;Owren, Michael J.;Ryan, Michael J.
动物交流研究经常使用与人类语言和相关结构（如信息编码和传递）的类比。即使研究目标非常不同，这种共性也是显而易见的，例如当灵长类动物的发声被提出具有类似单词的意义时，或者性选择信号被提出来传达关于信号者潜在质量的信息时。我们认为，在这种信息的方法，动物交流的背景倡导替代品的一些模糊性和局限性。替代方案避开基于语言的隐喻和更广泛的信息结构，而是专注于信号设计的具体细节，因为它们反映并与支持听众信号和反应的既定感官，生理和心理过程相互作用。我们提倡的替代方案也明确承认信号发送者和感知者的不同角色和往往不同的利益，这些角色和利益可能会在信号交互中产生根本的不对称性，因此它们将动物交流的解释重点从告知他人转移到影响他人。(C)2009年，动物行为研究协会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Animal communication studies often use analogies to human language and related constructs such as information encoding and transfer. This commonality is evident even when research goals are very different, for example when primate vocalizations are proposed to have word-like meaning, or sexually selected signals are proposed to convey information about a signaller's underlying quality. We consider some of the ambiguities and limitations inherent in such informational approaches to animal communication as background to advocating alternatives. The alternatives eschew language-based metaphors and broader informational constructs and focus instead on concrete details of signal design as they reflect and interact with established sensory, physiological and psychological processes that support signalling and responding in listeners. The alternatives we advocate also explicitly acknowledge the different roles and often divergent interests of signallers and perceivers that can yield fundamental asymmetries in signalling interactions, and they therefore shift the focus of interpretations of animal communication from informing others to influencing others. (C) 2009 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.