Salience Models: A Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Review

Toward a Simulation Platform for Comparing Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Models

While computational cognitive models serve many purposes, perhaps their primary utility is in formalizing specific hypotheses in order to facilitate evaluation in light of empirical results. Such evaluations are inherently relative, comparing the explanatory power of proposed models to alternatives. Direct comparisons are hindered, however, when competing hypotheses are framed within different ...

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience was born in the 1990’s amid a technological explosion that produced powerful new methods for noninvasively studying the human brain, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). These exciting new technologies revolutionized the scientific study of the mind, giving unprecedented observability into the neural processes...

Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience

Strategic Cognitive Sequencing: A Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Approach

We address strategic cognitive sequencing, the "outer loop" of human cognition: how the brain decides what cognitive process to apply at a given moment to solve complex, multistep cognitive tasks. We argue that this topic has been neglected relative to its importance for systematic reasons but that recent work on how individual brain systems accomplish their computations has set the stage for p...

Exploring the cognitive and motor functions of the basal ganglia: an integrative review of computational cognitive neuroscience models

Many computational models of the basal ganglia (BG) have been proposed over the past twenty-five years. While computational neuroscience models have focused on closely matching the neurobiology of the BG, computational cognitive neuroscience (CCN) models have focused on how the BG can be used to implement cognitive and motor functions. This review article focuses on CCN models of the BG and how...