Analysis on cognitive information processing mechanism of the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21685
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics; Life / Health / Medical informatics
• Research Institution: 防衛大学校(総合教育学群、人文社会科学群、応用科学群、電気情報学群及びシステム工学群)
• Principal Investigator: Shirakawa Tomohiro 防衛大学校(総合教育学群、人文社会科学群、応用科学群、電気情報学群及びシステム工, 電気情報学群, 助教 (60582905)
• Research Collaborator: NAKAMURA Akio 群馬大学, 医学研究科, 講師 (30282388) ; GUNJI Yukio 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (40192570) ; TANI Iori 総合研究大学院大学, 学術情報基盤センター, 助教 (70751379) ; SATO Hiroshi 防衛大学校, 電気情報学群, 准教授 (30295737) ; Adamatzky Andrew University of West of England, Unconvetional Computing Centre, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 真性粘菌変形体 / 探索行動 / 意思決定

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By analyzing a unicellular organism the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum in the observation of its exploratory behavior and decision making in terms of cognitive information processing, we tried to investigate the autonomy of the organism and its significance in the information science.

Free Research Field

知能情報学