Table 1. Average Spearman rank correlation coefficients <R> across all 50 LODs between all applied measures and fitness.
<#concepts> | <ΣφMax> | <#MC elements> | <#MC concepts> | <ΦMax> | ||
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.