A Constructive Approach to Interactions between Evolution and Learning in Emergence of Communication Abilities

本项目旨在从复杂和动态变化的环境的角度理解学习在交流能力进化中的作用。首先，我们使用最小的建设性模型阐明了学习（或表型可塑性）如何有助于自适应沟通能力的出现和进化。然后，我们进行了计算实验，具体集中在人类语言的起源和进化，鸣禽物种的鸣叫行为的时间回避的协同进化等。

This project aims at understanding roles of learning in evolution of communication abilities from the viewpoint of complex and dynamically changing environments. First, we clarified how learning(or phenotypic plasticity) could contribute to the emergence and evolution of adaptive communication abilities using minimal constructive models. Then, we conducted computational experiments that specifically focused on the origin and evolution of human language and the coevolution of the temporal avoidance in singing behaviors of songbird species, etc.