| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this series of experiments, we explored the role of temporal relationship among events on causal inference in non-human animals. Because the cause have to happen prior to the effect, temporal information is critical for detecting causal relationship among events. This leads the prediction that even non-human animals would detect the causal relationship if one event proceeds the other, but that two events occurred at the same time is not sufficient for detecting causality. The results of experiments confirm this prediction and suggested that non-human animals use temporal information for causal inference. Additionally, the results suggested the possibility that even rats experienced "sense of agency", where rats had some sense of that "the cause of the events is my own responding".
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