Title :

     Dynamics and Logic for Understanding Cognition and Behavior of Human

     1997.12.15 (Mon) --- 1997.12.17 (Wed)

Organizer :

     Takashi Ikegami, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ikuro Konishi, Masato Taichi,
     Gentaro Taga, Jun Tani, Takashi Hashimoto

Contents :

     In attacking the hard problems of human cognition and behavior, it is
     quite important to consider by which way we might be able to gain our
     understanding of these problems. Although observations of human
     phenomena in physiological or psychological levels could show a rich
     collections of facts to the observers, it is sometime difficult to
     extract the essential mechanisms from them. On the other hand, we
     sometime feel that we could understand the basic mechanisms just by
     proposing a rigorous theoretical model. We, however, recognize later
     the existence of a large gap between the theory and the reality in many
     cases. It is natural to say that the hard problems of cognition and
     behavior cannot be attacked by using any single methodology.

     Through a decade of complex systems researches, we have learned that
     complex phenomena in natural as well as social systems could be better
     understood in the cross sections of multi-disciplinary views. We assume
     that multi-disciplinary is a key also to access our problems. Our
     workshop invites the discussions from the diverse approaches including
     observations of brain and motor behavior in physiological and
     psychological levels, mathematical modeling using dynamical systems and
     logic, constructivist approach such as building robots. We attempt to
     seek a novel approach for the problems through such discussion.