Combinatorial Relationships Learned by a Language-Trained Sea Lion

Abstract

This paper presents a sea lion's responses to an array of novel, or anomalous, combinatorial structures. These responses are used to construct a more complete definition of the types of learning abilities a sea lion used to attain the observed level of performance on a complex language-like task. Finally, we discuss the possible relationship of these learning skills to human language performance. Animal Language Research(ALR), Sea lion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA275111

Entities

People

  • R. Gisiner
  • R. J. Schusterman

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Brightness
  • Discrimination
  • Fish
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Linguistics
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • New York
  • Ocean Surveillance
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Physical Properties
  • Psychology
  • Sea Lions

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.