Statistical analysis of discrimination games

J. F. Fontanari

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2006, vol. 54, issue 1, 127-130

Abstract: The hypothesis that meanings originate from discrimination tasks, in which an individual attempts to categorize N objects using a set of M sensory channels, is examined within a quantitative statistical perspective. Failure in discrimination triggers the refinement of a randomly-chosen sensory channel, starting thus an ongoing process, termed discrimination game, that ends only when all objects are differentiated. We show that the expected number of trials of a discrimination game diverges in the case of a single channel and scales with the power N 2/M for M ≥2. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2006

Keywords: 89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems; 02.50.Ey Stochastic processes; 02.50.Le Decision theory and game theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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