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. 2014 Dec 18;10(12):e1003966. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003966

Table 1. Average Spearman rank correlation coefficients <R> across all 50 LODs between all applied measures and fitness.

<#concepts> <ΣφMax> <#MC elements> <#MC concepts> Max>
Task 1 <R> 0.38 0.28 0.13 0.14 0.11
SEM 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05
Task 2 <R> 0.55 0.48 0.22 0.22 0.21
SEM 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.05
Task 3 <R> 0.47 0.39 0.30 0.28 0.27
SEM 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.05
Task 4 <R> 0.71 0.63 0.47 0.48 0.50
SEM 0.04 0.03 0.06 0.06 0.06

Since the average number of concepts and their ΣφMax values capture both modular and integrated causal relations in the animat's brain as a whole, they correlated more strongly with fitness than the average number of MC elements, MC concepts and <Φ Max>, which nevertheless increased with adaptation. See S1 Fig. for complementary histograms of the correlation coefficients of all individual LODs.