TY - GEN
T1 - Replicating the stroop effect using a developmental spatial neuroevolution system
AU - Benbassat, Amit
AU - Henik, Avishai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - We present an approach to the study of cognitive phenomena by using evolutionary computation. To this end we use a spatial, developmental, neuroevolution system. We use our system to evolve ANNs to perform simple abstractions of the cognitive tasks of color perception and color reading. We define these tasks to explore the nature of the Stroop effect. We show that we can evolve it to perform a variety of cognitive tasks, and also that evolved networks exhibit complex interference behavior when dealing with multiple tasks and incongruent data. We also show that this interference behavior can be manipulated by changing the learning parameters, a method that we successfully use to create a Stroop like interference pattern.
AB - We present an approach to the study of cognitive phenomena by using evolutionary computation. To this end we use a spatial, developmental, neuroevolution system. We use our system to evolve ANNs to perform simple abstractions of the cognitive tasks of color perception and color reading. We define these tasks to explore the nature of the Stroop effect. We show that we can evolve it to perform a variety of cognitive tasks, and also that evolved networks exhibit complex interference behavior when dealing with multiple tasks and incongruent data. We also show that this interference behavior can be manipulated by changing the learning parameters, a method that we successfully use to create a Stroop like interference pattern.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84988474729&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_56
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_56
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84988474729
SN - 9783319458229
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 602
EP - 612
BT - Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - 14th International Conference, PPSN 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Hart, Emma
A2 - Paechter, Ben
A2 - Handl, Julia
A2 - López-Ibáñez, Manuel
A2 - Lewis, Peter R.
A2 - Ochoa, Gabriela
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2016
Y2 - 17 September 2016 through 21 September 2016
ER -