Coding and Redundancy – Man–Made and Animal– Evolved Signals
Autor Jack P Hailmanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iun 2008
Jack Hailman believes this work pioneers several aspects of analyzing human and animal communication. The book is the first to survey man-made signals as a class. It is also the first to compare such human-devised systems with signaling in animals by showing the highly similar ways in which the two encode information. A third innovation is generalizing principles of quantitative information theory to apply to a broad range of signaling systems. Finally, another first is distinguishing among types of redundancy and their separation into unwanted and desirable categories.
This remarkably novel book will be of interest to a wide readership. Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780674027954
ISBN-10: 0674027957
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674027957
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
Descriere
This book explores the similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights, tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns, vocalizations). Drawing on semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields, it surveys animal signaling and an important class of human communication.