Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language S Kirby, H Cornish, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (31), 10681-10686, 2008 | 1267 | 2008 |
Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure S Kirby, M Tamariz, H Cornish, K Smith Cognition 141, 87-102, 2015 | 582 | 2015 |
Iterated learning: A framework for the emergence of language K Smith, S Kirby, H Brighton Artificial life 9 (4), 371-386, 2003 | 409 | 2003 |
Iterated learning and the evolution of language S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith Current opinion in neurobiology 28, 108-114, 2014 | 377 | 2014 |
Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning K Smith, E Wonnacott Cognition 116 (3), 444-449, 2010 | 282 | 2010 |
Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution K Smith, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008 | 250 | 2008 |
Language as an evolutionary system H Brighton, K Smith, S Kirby Physics of Life Reviews 2 (3), 177-226, 2005 | 227 | 2005 |
Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure K Smith, H Brighton, S Kirby Advances in Complex Systems 6 (4), 537-558, 2003 | 223 | 2003 |
Cross‐situational learning: An experimental study of word‐learning mechanisms K Smith, ADM Smith, RA Blythe Cognitive Science 35 (3), 480-498, 2011 | 202 | 2011 |
Culture shapes the evolution of cognition B Thompson, S Kirby, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (16), 4530-4535, 2016 | 200 | 2016 |
Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate N Claidière, K Smith, S Kirby, J Fagot Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1797), 20141541, 2014 | 194 | 2014 |
Auditory artificial grammar learning in macaque and marmoset monkeys B Wilson, H Slater, Y Kikuchi, AE Milne, WD Marslen-Wilson, K Smith, ... Journal of Neuroscience 33 (48), 18825-18835, 2013 | 172 | 2013 |
Zipf’s law of abbreviation and the principle of least effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication J Kanwal, K Smith, J Culbertson, S Kirby Cognition 165, 45-52, 2017 | 159 | 2017 |
From UG to universals: Linguistic adaptation through iterated learning S Kirby, K Smith, H Brighton Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation …, 2004 | 155 | 2004 |
Cultural selection for learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable H Brighton, S Kirby, K Smith Language origins: Perspectives on evolution, 291-309, 2005 | 115 | 2005 |
The evolution of vocabulary K Smith Journal of theoretical biology 228 (1), 127-142, 2004 | 113 | 2004 |
Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign Y Motamedi, M Schouwstra, K Smith, J Culbertson, S Kirby Cognition 192, 103964, 2019 | 112 | 2019 |
Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans B Wilson, Y Kikuchi, L Sun, D Hunter, F Dick, K Smith, A Thiele, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 8901, 2015 | 112 | 2015 |
Languages adapt to their contextual niche J Winters, S Kirby, K Smith Language and Cognition 7 (3), 415-449, 2015 | 106 | 2015 |
Cultural evolution and perpetuation of arbitrary communicative conventions in experimental microsocieties CA Caldwell, K Smith Public Library of Science 7 (8), e43807, 2012 | 103 | 2012 |