On the Relation between Perception and Recognition in Shogi

Grimbergen, R. (2009).

ICGA Journal, Vol.32, no.1, pp. 12--22.

Abstract

The ultimate goal of our research is to make a computer model of the cognitive behaviour of human game players using Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory about human cognition. The first step for building such a model is to understand the most primitive building blocks of human cognition, namely those dealing with perception. In the two reproduction experiments given in this article, a number of hypotheses about the importance of perceptual features for recognition were investigated. These experiments were carried out using shogi (Japanese chess), but neither the hypotheses nor the experimental set-up is particularly shogi-specific, so the results are expected to carry over to other games as well. The results of the experiments showed that knowledge in long-term memory is very important for perception and that perceptual features play only a minor role in recognition.