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A cognitive psychological study of the mechanisms of recursion and analogy in emergent thinking.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11410030
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

KOYASU Masuo  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education, Dept. of Cognitive Psychology in Education, Professor, 教育学研究科, 教授 (70115658)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KUSUMI Takashi  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education, Dept. of Cognitive Psychology in Education, Associate Professor, 教育学研究科, 助教授 (70195444)
Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Keywordsemergence / recursion / analogy / symbolic connectionist model / Prisoner's Dilemma Game / life course / narrative / the second-order belief / 囚人のジレンマ / ゲーム状況 / 心的状態の帰属 / 類似性 / 転移 / 創発的思考 / 知識表象
Research Abstract

The concept "emergence" was at first coined by researchers of the complex systems approach. The concept means that with a limited set of units we think of tremendous number of new ideas. This is supported by at least two important mechanisms, namely, recursion which constructs a hierarchical linkage of knowledge and analogy which composes a horizontal linkage of knowledge. The aim of the present research is to investigate the roles of the two mechanisms by conducting several experiments. The first experiment was conducted using university students in a situation where the subjects were asked to judge between the alternatives (selling hamburgers at the list price or at a discount price) in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game. The recursive nature of the counterparts(instructed as a human or a machine) influenced the impression ratings of the counterpart; e.g., feeling wickedness to the tiffortat strategy. The second was to investigate primary school children's ability of understanding narratives. Global understanding of the text has closer correlation with understanding the second-order beliefs which needs recursive understanding of the mind than local understanding of the text. The third experiment was to investigate the processes of using analogy in understanding two famous people's life courses (Nightingale and Mother Teresa and six other pairs) by university students and showed that there are two cases in which analogy was preserved and in which analogy was changed dynamically.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2001 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All Other

All Publications (5 results)

  • [Publications] 楠見 孝: "類似性と近接性-人間の認知の特長について"人工知能学会誌. 17(1). 2-7 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kusumi, T.: "Similarity and contiguity : Fundamental characteristics of human cognitive processes"Japanese Journal of Artificial Intelligence. 17(1). 2-7 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 楠見 孝: "類似性と近接性-人間の認知の特徴について"人工知能学会誌. 17・1. 2-7 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 杉村和枝,楠見孝: "多義動詞「ひく」の意味派生を支えるイメージスキーマの変容"表現研究. 71. 27-34 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Sugimura,K.& Kusumi,T.: "A container image schema and polysemous meaning in Japanese verb."Japanese Society. 4. 65-80 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2000-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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