We have recently provided evidence for anticipatory grasp control mechanisms in the kinematic domain by showing that subjects modulate digit placement on an object based on its center of mass (CM) when it can be anticipated (Lukos et al., 2007). This behavior relied on sensorimotor memories about digit contact points and forces required for optimal manipulation. We found that accurate sensorimo...

Abstract Under the assumption that anticipatory models are required for behavior, an important question arises about different manners in which organisms acquire models. This article aims to articulate four non-exhaustive ways might possibly be acquired over both phylogenetic and ontogenetic timescales explore relationships among them. To these model-acquisition mechanisms, schematics will intr...

Newborns are prone to health problems due a weak body defense system. Some that commonly arise in neonates include diseases the mild category (which common), for example: jaundice (physiological jaundice), vomiting, seborrheic dermatitis, oral trush, diarrhea, fever, diapper rush (diaper rash), miliariasis, constipation, and others. One of preventive efforts prevent complications newborns is by...

Anticipatory thinking (AT) and design have many commonalities. We identify three challenges for all computational AT systems: representation, generation, evaluation. discuss how existing artificial intelligence techniques provide some methods addressing these, but also fall significantly short. Next, we articulate where concepts appear in paradigms: configuration design, resilience, conceptual ...

Bilateral transfer of perceptual and motor components in movement control was investigated through two experiments. In Experiment 1 a simple anticipatory timing task was practiced with either the preferred or the nonpreferred hand. After a short resting interval an additional set of trials was performed with the contralateral hand. In Experiment 2, the same experimental design was used to inves...

Despite significant algorithmic advances in recent years, finding optimal policies for large-scale, multistage stochastic combinatorial optimization problems remains far beyond the reach of existing methods. This paper studies a complementary approach, online anticipatory algorithms, that make decisions at each step by solving the anticipatory relaxation for a polynomial number of scenarios. On...

Anticipatory and consummatory dissociation of hedonic experience may manifest as anhedonia in schizophrenia. However, it is unclear if this temporal dissociation of pleasure experience is also relevant in other symptoms like social anhedonia in the schizophrenia disorder spectrum. The present study applied two incentive delay tasks involving different incentive types (money vs. social affective...

The analysis of the pre-choice behaviors in an operant conditioning task led to the observation that pigeons often produced anticipatory pecks that were directed at the location of their next response. Despite the possible utility of this behavior for understanding basic behavioral processes in animal learning and the widespread use of touchscreen displays to present pictorial stimuli, there ha...