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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Storytelling, behavior planning, and language evolution in context
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01131 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Glen McBride |
| Abstract |
An attempt is made to specify the structure of the hominin bands that began steps to language. Storytelling could evolve without need for language yet be strongly subject to natural selection and could provide a major feedback process in evolving language. A storytelling model is examined, including its effects on the evolution of consciousness and the possible timing of language evolution. Behavior planning is presented as a model of language evolution from storytelling. The behavior programming mechanism in both directions provide a model of creating and understanding behavior and language. Culture began with societies, then family evolution, family life in troops, but storytelling created a culture of experiences, a final step in the long process of achieving experienced adults by natural selection. Most language evolution occurred in conversations where evolving non-verbal feedback ensured mutual agreements on understanding. Natural language evolved in conversations with feedback providing understanding of changes. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 6% |
| Moldova, Republic of | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 14 | 82% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 53% |
| Scientists | 6 | 35% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 46 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 15% |
| Professor | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 10 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 13 | 28% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 8 | 17% |
| Unknown | 10 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 November 2014.
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#2,956,099
of 24,844,992 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#5,687
of 33,516 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,526
of 261,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#94
of 373 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,844,992 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 33,516 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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