Decoding dolphin

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2962, 2014, págs. 19-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Thad Starner at the Georgia Institute of Technology built CHAT with a team of graduate students. They are using pattern-discovery algorithms, designed to analyze dolphin whistles and extract meaningful features that a person might miss or not think to look for. As well as listening out for invented whistles, the team hopes to start flying to figure out what the dolphins natural communication means, too. Terrence Deacon, an anthropologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, explains that some pattern of repetition is a basic requirement when information is transmitted. Information theory can find out what those pattern are, which parts of a whistle are important, helping behaviorists figure out what animals are communicating.