Anterior cingulate activity during routine and non-routine sequential behaviors in macaques

Anterior cingulate activity during error and autonomic response.

The contribution of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to human cognition remains unclear. The rostral (rACC) and dorsal (dACC) ACC cortex are implicated in tasks that require increased response control due to emotional and cognitive interference, respectively. However, both rACC and dACC are activated by conditions that induce changes in visceral arousal, suggesting that ACC supports a generation...

A Reinforcement Model of Sequential Routine Action

In a recent paper, Botvinick & Plaut [1] claim to capture the relevant empirical data on a sequential routine action task in a single embedded SRN (simple recurrent network). In this type of model, task representations are most appropriately described as an emergent property, that is, in terms of the continuous attractor dynamics in the network’s hidden layer. Two major shortcomings of this mod...

From Deliberative to Routine Behaviors: A Cognitively Inspired Action-Selection Mechanism for Routine Behavior Capture

Long-term human-robot interaction, especially in the case of humanoid robots, requires an adaptable and varied behavior base. In this work we present a method for capturing, or learning, sequential tasks by transferring serial behavior execution from deliberative to routine control. The incorporation of this approach leads to natural development of complex and varied behaviors, with lower deman...

Routine Based Models of Anticipation in Natural Behaviors

This paper describes the analysis and modeling of natural human behaviors on top of a routine based model of cognition. This theory hypothesizes that there exists in the brain a collection of built-in programs, which are coded with a fixed set of basic visual primitives and can be reprogrammed to carry out various visual tasks. Despite the general recognition of the value of such an approach an...

Routine OCT and UBM of the anterior segment