Environmental structure and the cognitive architecture promoting cumulative cultural evolution
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25285176
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,960,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥6,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,530,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
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| Keywords | 文化進化 / 技術の進化 / エージェント・ベース・シミュレーション / 文化伝達 / 繰り返し学習 / 累積的文化進化 / コンピュータ・シミュレーション / 置き換え法 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Culture is the phenomenon that distinguish the human beings from the other animals. Systems of human knowledge, such as language, symbols, technology, mathematics and sciences, have gradually evolved through the transmissions from the previous to the next generations, and eventually reached high level which cannot be attained by a single individual in a generation. This is called the cumulative cultural evolution. In this study, I focused the role of transmission processes for culture to evolve cumulatively. Through a series of laboratory experiments and agent-based computer simulations, it was found that transmission processes cannot be the mere imitation of the previous generation but it needs to provide an effective selection pressure for culture to evolve cumulatively.
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Report
(4 results)
Research Products
(37 results)
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[Presentation] Neural Mechanisms Underlying Indirect Reciprocity: Empathy and Reward Calculation2015
Author(s)
Takezawa, M., Watanabe, T., Nakawake, Y., Kunimatsu, S., Yamasue, H., Nakamura, M., Miyashita, Y., Masuda, N.
Organizer
The 16th International Conference on Social Dilemmas
Place of Presentation
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Year and Date
2015-06-23
Related Report
Int'l Joint Research
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[Presentation] Neural Mechanisms Underlying Indirect Reciprocity: Emotion and Reward Calculation2015
Author(s)
Takezawa, M., Watanabe, T., Nakawake, Y., Kunimatsu, S., Yamasue, H., Nakamura, M., Miyashita, Y., Masuda, N.
Organizer
The 27th Annual Meeting of Human Behaviour and Evolution Society
Place of Presentation
University of Missouri (USA)
Year and Date
2015-05-27
Related Report
Int'l Joint Research
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