Coding and Redundancy
Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals
Published on 31. May 2008
272 pages
978-0-674-27328-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights, tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns, vocalizations). Drawing on semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields, it surveys animal signaling and an important class of human communication.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-27328-3 (9780674273283)
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06/2008
Harvard University Press
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Content
2.1 Binary coding 72 3.1 Damselfly census 80 3.2 Damselfly entropy 81 3.3 Turn signal probabilities 86 3.4 Turn signal entropy 87 3.5 Multi-valued coding 116 4.1 Touch tone signals 120 4.2 Speculum code words 123 4.3 Duck census 129 4.4 Multivariate coding 160 5.1 Intrinsic redundancy 175 6.1 Morse code lengths 189 6.2 Redundancy reduction 194 7.1 Designed redundancy 214 Figures 2.1 Examples of simple one-bit signals 31 2.2 Example of fractional-bit signals 36 2.3 Another example of a fractional-bit signal 37
