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京都大学大学院・教育学研究科において、以下の講演会を開催いたします。どう
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日時：2015年３月11日（水）14:00 ～ 15:30
場所：京都大学教育学研究科 本館一階第一会議室
講演題目：Executive function without an executive
講演者：Professor Robert H. Logie (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
講演要旨：Zenon Pylyshyn, writing in 1973, noted that not all functional
mental operations are necessarily conscious, and not all conscious
experience is necessarily functional. The concept of executive function
often refers to conscious control, suggesting some form of homunculus in
overall charge of cognition. This raises the obvious question of what
controls the homunculus and so on, leading to an unhelpful infinite
regress. As suggested by Pylyshyn, our experience of executive control
might not reflect how that control is actually achieved in the brain. It
may be the product, not the function, of multiple, parallel, and largely
non-conscious mental operations that process, encode, store, retrieve,
plan, and solve problems. Conscious experience may give only indirect
and imprecise indications of how those mental operations go about their
business. I will argue that executive functions can arise from the
interactions among multiple specialised cognitive functions, an!
d learned procedures, each with their own specified role, without the
need to propose an executive controller.
世話人：齊藤 智（京都大学大学院・教育学研究科）
連絡先：ssaito[at]educ.kyoto-u.ac.jp
主催： 京都大学 融合チーム研究プログラム－SPIRITS－
「心の働きを制御する心の働きを探る国際共同研究」（研究代表者：齊藤 智）
