Assembly Process of Exploratory Behavior into Active Sensing Systems(Fostering Joint International Research)

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15KK0009
• Research Category: Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: NONAKA TETSUSHI 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 准教授 (20520133)
• Research Collaborator: Goldfield Eugene C. Harvard University, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
• Project Period (FY): 2015 – 2017
• Keywords: 探索行動 / アフォーダンス / 対人間協調 / 自己組織化 / 共同行為 / 環境 / 日常生活技能 / 発達

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With Eugene C. Goldfield at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, this research project studied the process of the emergence of the utensil-using skill of infants to control encounters with food and mother-infant joint action that surrounds the emergence of this context-specific skill. The co-authored paper that appeared in the international journal Ecological Psychology reported on the results of the longitudinal observations from the first contact with a utensil to the beginning of successful self-feeding with a utensil. Overall, the study found the process of what may be called affordance selection, in which a definite set of opportunities for action among many available were selected by adults to invite certain spontaneous behaviors of developing infants. The study added to the growing realization that normally occurring experiences of rich affordances matter in the development of specific behavior in a given cultural context.

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認知科学