Jean-Louis Dessalles
| Jean-Louis Dessalles | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 January 1956 Périgueux, Dordogne, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Alma mater | Télécom ParisTech |
| Known for |
Simplicity theory Kolmogorov complexity |
Jean-Louis Dessalles (born in 1956 in Périgueux) is a French computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, professor à Télécom ParisTech (Paris). He is best known for his contributions to the Simplicity theory and for his original theory about a possible political origin of language.
Biography
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Research
Jean-Louis Dessalles focuses on the quest for fundamental principles underlying the language faculty and its biological origins. He found that simplicity (or complexity drop) predicts narrative interest. He found a concise model of argumentative relevance. He found that Costly signalling theory explains how honest communication can be possible among selfish agents (to explain the evolutionary emergence of language).
Publications
- Books
- 2008: La pertinence et ses origines cognitives, Nouvelles théories, Hermes-sciences, Paris.
- 2007: Why We Talk, The evolutionary origins of language, Oxford University Press.
- 2006: Les origines de la culture: les origines du langage (avec Pascal Picq et B. Victorri), Le Pommier, Paris.
- 2000: Aux origines du langage. Une histoire naturelle de la parole, Hermes-sciences, Paris.
- 1996: L'ordinateur génétique, Hermes-sciences, Paris.
- Science papers
- 2014: Optimal investment in social signals, Evolution 68(6), 1640–1650.
- 2014: The role of the human political singularity in the emergence of language. In E. A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn & H. Cornish (Eds.), The evolution of language – Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (Evolang-X – Vienna), 423–424. World Scientific.
- 2014: Why talk?. In D. Dor, C. Knight & J. Lewis (Eds.), The social origins of language, 284–296. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- 2013: Du protolangage au langage: modèle d'une transition. In B. Fracchiolla (Ed.), Les origines du langage et des langues. Paris: L'Harmattan.
- 2011: Simplicity Effects in the Experience of Near-Miss. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 408–413. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Journal articles, radio, TV.
- 2014: Comment nous optimisons nos signaux sociaux. La Recherche, 494 (), 56–59.
- 2011: Parler pour exister, Revue Sciences Humaines, 224, 45–47.
- 2011: Les origines du langage. La Marche des Sciences, Aurélie Luneau. France Culture, 18 janvier 2011.
- 2002: Image et science: le langage, Jean-Pierre Mirouze. France 5, Jeudi 3 octobre 2002.
- 2002: L’homme animal politique, animal loquace. Continent Sciences, Stéphane Deligeorges. France Culture, 21 février 2002.
- 2001: L’origine politique du langage, La Recherche, 341, 31–35.