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DOI	10.1037/xan0000227
	On the Origins of Computationally Complex Behavior
	Grace, Randolph C.; Carvell, Georgina E.; Morton, Nicola J.; Grice, Matt; Wilson, Anna J.; Kemp, Simon
通讯作者	Grace, RC (corresponding author), Univ Canterbury, Dept Psychol, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand.
会议名称	42nd Annual Meeting of the Society-for-the-Quantitative-Analyses-of-Behavior (SQAB)
会议日期	MAY 23-24, 2019
会议地点	Chicago, IL
英文摘要	There is considerable evidence for computationally complex behavior, that is, behavior that appears to require the equivalent of mathematical calculation by the organism. Spatial navigation by path integration is perhaps the best example. The most influential account of such behavior has been Gallistel's (1990) computational-representational theory, which assumes that organisms represent key environmental variables such as direction and distance traveled as real numbers stored in engrams and are able to perform arithmetic computations on those representations. But how are these computations accomplished? A novel perspective is gained from the historical development of algebra. We propose that computationally complex behavior suggests that the perceptual system represents an algebraic field, which is a mathematical concept that expresses the structure underlying arithmetic. Our field representation hypothesis predicts that the perceptual system computes 2 operations on represented magnitudes, not 1. We review recent research in which human observers were trained to estimate differences and ratios of stimulus pairs in a nonsymbolic task without explicit instruction (Grace, Morton, Ward, Wilson, & Kemp, 2018). Results show that the perceptual system automatically computes two operations when comparing stimulus magnitudes. A field representation offers a resolution to longstanding controversies in psychophysics about which of 2 algebraic operations is fundamental (e.g., the Fechner-Stevens debate), overlooking the possibility that both might be. In terms of neural processes that might support computationally complex behavior, our hypothesis suggests that we should look for evidence of 2 operations and for symmetries corresponding to the additive and multiplicative groups.
英文关键词	spatial navigation computation representation psychophysics abstract algebra
来源出版物	JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION
ISSN	2329-8456
EISSN	2329-8464
出版年	2020
卷号	46
期号	1
页码	1-15
出版者	AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
类型	Article; Proceedings Paper
语种	英语
收录类别	CPCI-S ; CPCI-SSH
WOS记录号	WOS:000557767700001
WOS关键词	PATH-INTEGRATION ; DESERT ANTS ; RATIO ; NAVIGATION ; SCALE ; FECHNER ; SEARCH ; LAW ; INFORMATION ; DIFFERENCE
WOS类目	Psychology, Biological ; Behavioral Sciences ; Psychology ; Psychology, Experimental ; Zoology
WOS研究方向	Psychology ; Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology
资源类型	会议论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/337053
作者单位	[Grace, Randolph C.; Carvell, Georgina E.; Morton, Nicola J.; Grice, Matt; Wilson, Anna J.; Kemp, Simon] Univ Canterbury, Dept Psychol, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Grace, Randolph C.,Carvell, Georgina E.,Morton, Nicola J.,et al. On the Origins of Computationally Complex Behavior[C]:AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC,2020:1-15.