TY - GEN
T1 - Examining the stroop effect using a develomental spatial neuroevolution system
AU - Benbassat, Amit
AU - Henik, Avishai
N1 - Funding Information:
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union''s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant agreement number 295644.
PY - 2015/7/11
Y1 - 2015/7/11
N2 - We present a novel approach to the study of cognitive abilities by using evolutionary computation. To this end we use a spatial, developmental, neuroevolution system presented here for the first time. We use our system to evolve ANNs to perform simple abstractions of cognitive tasks such as size perception, counting color identification and reading. We define these tasks to explore hypotheses about the evolution of counting and the the nature of the Stroop effect. Our results show the versatility of our evolutionary system. We show that we can evolve it to perform a variety of cognitive tasks, and also that evolved networks exhibit interference behavior when dealing with multiple tasks and incongruent data.
AB - We present a novel approach to the study of cognitive abilities by using evolutionary computation. To this end we use a spatial, developmental, neuroevolution system presented here for the first time. We use our system to evolve ANNs to perform simple abstractions of cognitive tasks such as size perception, counting color identification and reading. We define these tasks to explore hypotheses about the evolution of counting and the the nature of the Stroop effect. Our results show the versatility of our evolutionary system. We show that we can evolve it to perform a variety of cognitive tasks, and also that evolved networks exhibit interference behavior when dealing with multiple tasks and incongruent data.
KW - Cognitive simulation
KW - Developmental EA
KW - Evolutionary algorithm
KW - Neuroevolution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84959432600&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2739482.2764888
DO - 10.1145/2739482.2764888
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959432600
T3 - GECCO 2015 - Companion Publication of the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
SP - 747
EP - 748
BT - GECCO 2015 - Companion Publication of the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
A2 - Silva, Sara
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 17th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2015
Y2 - 11 July 2015 through 15 July 2015
ER -