Cognitive system of organisms living in the environments as facilitation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12054
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Gunji Yukio 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (40192570)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ファシリテーション / 意思決定 / 生物計算 / 群

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Behaviors in swarms of soldier crabs could be explained by the model equipped with asynchronous updating and anticipation. It is shown that such a model could be replaced by an agent model of which each agent makes a decision based on Bayesian and inverse Bayesian inference. We formalized general form of a pair of inference consisting of Bayesian and inverse Bayesian inference. The model could also found in the behavior of soldier crabs and ants. SいSince Bayesian and inverse Bayesian inference could contribute to highly efficient and robust computation respectively, it is found that such a pair is an essential property of living systems which could adapt to dynamically changing environments.

Free Research Field

理論生命科学