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査読有り 最終著者 本文へのリンクあり 国際誌
2022年2月21日

Superposition mechanism as a neural basis for understanding others.

Scientific Reports
  • Wataru Noguchi
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  • Hiroyuki Iizuka
  • ,
  • Masahito Yamamoto
  • ,
  • Shigeru Taguchi

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開始ページ
2859
終了ページ
2859
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s41598-022-06717-3

Social cognition has received much attention in fields such as neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy. Theory-theory (TT) and simulation theory (ST) provide the dominant theoretical frameworks for research on social cognition. However, neither theory addresses the matter of how the concepts of "self" and "other" are acquired through the development of human and nonhuman agents. Here, we show that the internal representations of "self" and "other" can be developed in an artificial agent only through the simple predictive learning achieved by deep neural networks with the superposition mechanism we herein propose. That is, social cognition can be achieved without a pre-given (or innate) framework of self and other; this is not assumed (or is at least unclear) in TT and ST. We demonstrate that the agent with the proposed model can acquire basic abilities of social cognition such as shared spatial representations of self and other, perspective-taking, and mirror-neuron-like activities of the agent's neural network. The result indicates that the superposition mechanism we propose is a necessary condition for the development of the concepts of "self" and "other" and, hence, for the development of social cognition in general.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06717-3 本文へのリンクあり
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35190582
共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題
意識変容の現象学──哲学・数学・神経科学・ロボティクスによる学際的アプローチ
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s41598-022-06717-3
  • PubMed ID : 35190582

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