Establishing of cognitive model for anticipating others' behaviors in coordinated group behavior

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K18033
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 90030:Cognitive science-related
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: Ichikawa Jun 静岡大学, 情報学部, 助教 (90807942)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 協調 / インタラクション / 集団運動 / 役割分担 / 調整 / モデリング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to understand and model the adjustment and cognitive processing involved in complex and dynamically planned coordination, such as nonverbal behavior with sharing a group goal by a triad. The results of rule-based simulation suggested that, for motor coordination, the resilient role-who moderately intervenes in other roles and improves situations-uses information on task performance to adjust. Performance reflects others’ motor information, such as their operating procedures and forces; the player may anticipate their behaviors. This study contributes to enhancing the fundamental and constructive understanding of cognitive processing related to coordination. In the future, a human-like model could be provided by combining it with a bottom-up one like reinforcement learning.

Free Research Field

認知科学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では，これまでの認知科学や神経科学では十分に議論されなかった集団目標を共有した3者の協調運動を理解する上で基盤となる知見を提供した．このような協調運動を議論するスポーツ科学や生物集団行動学との接続が実現し，情報処理の観点から協調運動を検討する新たな領域を開拓した点で学術的意義があると言える．また，高いパフォーマンスに関連するレジリエントな役割，及びその役割がどのように遂行されるかを解明したことで「集団」と「個」に関する発展的な議論が期待される．リーダー・フォロワーとは異なる性質をもつ役割の重要性を提案したことは社会的意義が大きいと考えられる．