Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0556991

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0556991

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Evolution Of Knowledge: Transformations And Universals. This project has two principal benefits: A basic scientific outcome concerning the evolution of language and an applied outcome that can inform the design of graphical communication tools. The evolution of language is one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary science, but to date it has escaped experimental examination. This project develops an experimental methodology that permits examination of the processes by which human knowledge evolves across generations of teachers and learners. In addition, by also examining the final content of evolution, and by determining what type of graphical symbols emerge out of communal evolution, the project can inform the future design of graphical communication tools (e.g., road signs).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-03-2005

End Date: 15-10-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $182,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Computational Linguistics | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Social And Community Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Computational Linguistics | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Psychology | Social And Community Psychology

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