| Autor: |
Stoop R; Institute of Neuroinformatics, University and ETH of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland., Nüesch P, Stoop RL, Bunimovich LA |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
PloS one [PLoS One] 2013 Aug 23; Vol. 8 (8), pp. e70284. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Aug 23 (Print Publication: 2013). |
| DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0070284 |
| Abstrakt: |
Using a symbolic dynamics and a surrogate data approach, we show that the language exhibited by common fruit flies Drosophila ('D.') during courtship is as grammatically complex as the most complex human-spoken modern languages. This finding emerges from the study of fifty high-speed courtship videos (generally of several minutes duration) that were visually frame-by-frame dissected into 37 fundamental behavioral elements. From the symbolic dynamics of these elements, the courtship-generating language was determined with extreme confidence (significance level > 0.95). The languages categorization in terms of position in Chomsky's hierarchical language classification allows to compare Drosophila's body language not only with computer's compiler languages, but also with human-spoken languages. Drosophila's body language emerges to be at least as powerful as the languages spoken by humans. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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