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Iterated learning: intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases.

Michael L Kaush1, Thomas L Griffiths, Stephan Lewandowsky

  • 1Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, USA. kalish@louisiana.edu

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|August 19, 2007
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Iterated learning, where information is passed down through generations, shapes human knowledge. This process converges to reflect learners' inherent inductive biases, as confirmed by experiments.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychology
  • Anthropology

Background:

  • Cultural transmission is fundamental to human knowledge acquisition, especially for complex information like language and norms.
  • This knowledge is acquired through iterated learning, where individuals learn from others who learned from previous generations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how iterated learning influences the information being transmitted across generations.
  • To determine if iterated learning converges to an equilibrium reflecting learners' inductive biases.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of iterated learning using Bayesian agents.
  • Empirical experiment involving iterated function learning with human participants.

Main Results:

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  • Theoretical models predicted convergence to an equilibrium reflecting inductive biases.
  • Human participants in the iterated function learning experiment confirmed this prediction.

Conclusions:

  • Iterated learning shapes transmitted information by converging to an equilibrium state.
  • This study provides a method for uncovering the inductive biases guiding human inference and knowledge transmission.