{"pk":28110,"title":"What underlies dual-process cognition? Adjoint and representable functors","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Despite a general recognition that there are two styles of think-ing: fast, reflexive and relatively effortless (Type 1) versus slow,reflective and effortful (Type 2), dual-process theories of cogni-tion remain controversial, in particular, for their vagueness. Toaddress this lack of formal precision, we take a mathematicalcategory theory approach towards understanding what under-lies the relationship between dual cognitive processes. Fromour category theory perspective, we show that distinguishingfeatures of Type 1 versus Type 2 processes are exhibited viaadjoint and representable functors. These results suggest thatcategory theory provides a useful formal framework for devel-oping dual-process theories of cognition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"dual-process; Type 1; Type 2; category theory;category; functor; natural transformation; adjoint"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ck317c1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Phillips","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28110/galley/17769/download/"}]}