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Natural selection of visual symmetries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Peter A. van der Helm
Affiliation:
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands peterh@nici.kun.nl
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Abstract

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Implicitly, Wynn's target article starts from the transformational definition of symmetry. Unlike his suggestion, this traditional definition and the recent holographic definition are relevant to the discussion on the cognitive evolution of visual symmetries. These definitions reveal underlying properties and, thereby, they support the natural selection hypothesis. The holographic definition even agrees with an indirect test of this hypothesis.

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© 2002 Cambridge University Press