2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Is the Symmetry Inference the Chicken or the Egg for LanguageLearning? : Direct Comparison of Human Infants and Chimpanzees
Project/Area Number |
22653093
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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Research Institution | Keio University |
Principal Investigator |
IMAI Mutsumi 慶應義塾大学, 環境情報学部, 教授 (60255601)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OKADA Hiroyuki 玉川大学, 工学部, 教授 (10349326)
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Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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Keywords | 非論理推論 / 比較心理学 / 対称性 |
Research Abstract |
It is considered that the symmetrical bias, which enables us toautomatically infer reversely-oriented relation B then A if we have learned one-way Athen B interaction alone, underlies our illogical but efficient thinking. This bias seemsto be deeply assoc
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Research Products
(14 results)