A category theory approach to human cognition
| Project/Area Number |
26280051
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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 |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Phillips Steven 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 人間情報研究部門, 上級主任研究員 (90344209)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
武田 裕司 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 自動車ヒューマンファクター研究センター, 研究チーム長 (10357410)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥15,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,570,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥5,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
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| Keywords | 圏論 / 普遍的構造 / システム性 / 学習 / 刺激-反応 / category theory / universal construction / systematicity / learning / stimulus-response / compositionality / cognitive architecture / cost-benefit / EEG / synchrony / empirical Bayes / visual search |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We explained systematicity in terms of the category theory concept of universal constructions. Experimentally, we tested a theoretical implication that failure of systematicity derives from a cost/benefit trade-off for the universal construction. Participants learned two series of cue-target pair maps whose underlying structures were either products (universal construction), or non-products (control). Each series was learned in either ascending or descending order of size: number of unique cue/target elements constituting pairs. Only performance on the product series was affected by order: systematicity was obtained universally in the descend group, but only on large sets in the ascend group. Consistent with the theory, the results suggest that learning small maps directly, without reference to the underlying product, may be perceived as more cost-effective, i.e., acquisition of a universal construction, hence systematicity, depends on an empirical cost-benefit trade-off.
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