• Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Lusseau, David; Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy; Hsu, Minna J.; Semple, Stuart (Wiley, 2013)
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      A key aim in biology and psychology is to identify fundamental principles underpinning the behavior of animals, including humans. Analyses of human language and the behavior of a range of non-human animal species have ...
    • The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analysing mean call durations 

      Semple, Stuart; Hsu, Minna J.; Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (2013-07-04)
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      Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated. ...