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Kitajima, M. (2019)

Kitajima, M. (2019). Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography (CCE): A Behavioral Study Methodology Underpinned by the Cognitive Architecture, MHP/RT. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 55-56.

 

Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography (CCE): A Behavioral Study Methodology Underpinned by the Cognitive Architecture, MHP/RT

At the 0-th order approximation, a person interacts with his or her environment by running an endless cycle of perceiving the external and internal environment through five senses via sensory neurons as parallel processing, and acting to the external environment through body parts via motor neurons as serial processing. As s/he perceives the results of movement of his/her body parts as well as the changes of the external environment as time goes by, the next cycle of Perceptual-Motor should occur. Interneurons in-between the sensory neurons and motor neurons convert the input patterns to the output patterns - these constitute a Perceptual- Cognitive-Motor process (PCM process). Starting from this basic cycle, we (M. Toyota and the author) constructed a comprehensive theory of action selection and memory, Model Human Processor with Realtime Constraints (MHP/RT), that should provide a basis for constructing any models for users interacting with ever-changing environments, and an accompanying behavioral study methodology, Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography (CCE) (Kitajima, 2016; Kitajima & Toyota, 2013) to be used to utilize, validate, and/or refine MHP/RT. MHP/RT and CCE are two wheels for conducting cognitive behavioral sciences, that complement each other from theoretical and experimental perspectives, respectively. Visit http://oberon.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ktjm/organic-self-consistent-field-theory/index.html for more information for the entire project.

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