Alberto Acerbi and Domenico Parisi (2006)
Cultural Transmission Between and Within Generations
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
vol. 9, no. 1
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Received: 08-Jun-2005 Accepted: 21-Nov-2005 Published: 31-Jan-2006
Figure 1. An agent's visual field and the input encoding the content of the visual field |
Figure 2. Cultural transmission model |
Figure 3. Average performance of a succession of 500 generations for a population with purely inter-generational transmission [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 4. Average performance of a succession of 500 generations for a population with purely intra-generational transmission [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 5. Comparison between the average performance of a succession of 500 generations for populations with inter-generational cultural transmission with noise (grey line) and without noise (black line) [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 6. Comparison between the average performance of a succession of 500 generations for populations with inter-generational cultural transmission without noise for learning rate = 0.1 (grey line) and for learning rate = 0.3 (black line) [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 7. Average performance in the last 100 generations as a function of level of (α= 0: purely inter-generational transmission; α = 1: purely intra-generational transmission ) [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 8. Comparison between the average performance of a succession of 500 generations for populations with cultural transmission without noise with α = 0.6 (i.e., a certain amount of horizontal transmission; grey line) and with α = 0 (purely inter-generational cultural transmission; black line) [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 9. Average performance of the last 100 generations as a function of level of α [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 10. Comparison between the average performance of a population with cultural transmission with α = 0.3 (grey line) and a population with α = 0, namely with pure inter-generational cultural transmission (black line), after the environment has changed [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 11. Value of the gene that controls the probability α that an individual will imitate its peers vs adults [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 12. Performance of a population with the α value controlled by a genetic algorithm [average of 10 seeds] |
Figure 13. Comparison between the performance of a population with the probability α of intra-generational cultural transmission controlled by a genetic algorithm (grey line) and a population with α = 0, namely with pure inter-generational cultural transmission (black line), after the environment has changed [average of 10 seeds] |
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