2019 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
An adjoint functors approach to models of cognition
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16KT0025
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Steven Phillips 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 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, 情報・人間工学領域, 研究チーム長 (10357410)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-07-19 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | 圏論 / 普遍的構造 / システム性 / 学習 / 刺激‐反応 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Dual-process theories are controversial because they are vaguely defined and don’t always align with the supposed distinctions. We proposed a category theory (adjoint functors) approach to dual-process aspects of cognition. A series of experiments were conducted to elicit dual-processing routes within a given task. Our main theoretical result was to show that an associative/relational (rule-based) form of dual-process is related by a category (sheaf) theory construction, called sheaving, which is an adjoint functor. This result provides a new way of modeling cognitive representations and processes.
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