Modelling Natural Action Selection

Herausgeber: Bryson, Joanna J.; Seth, Anil K.; Prescott, Tony J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uses cutting-edge computational models to explore the fundamental biological problem of action selection in nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1152g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000490
• ISBN-10: 1107000491
• Artikelnr.: 33352618

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Peter M. Todd; 1. General introduction Anil K. Seth, Joanna J.
Bryson and Tony J. Prescott; Part I. Rational and Optimal Decision Making:
2. Introduction to Part I: rational and optimal decision making Anil K.
Seth, Tony J. Prescott and Joanna J. Bryson; 3. Do we expect natural
selection to produce rational behaviour? Alasdair I. Houston, John M.
McNamara and Mark D. Steer; 4. Optimised agent-based modelling of action
selection Anil K. Seth; 5. Compromise strategies for action selection
Frederick L. Crabbe; 6. Extending a biologically inspired model of choice:
multi-alternatives, nonlinearity and value based multidimensional choice
Rafal Bogacz, Marius Usher, Jiaxiang Zhang and James L. McClelland; 7.
Bayesian approaches to modelling action selection Max Berniker, Kunlin Wei
and Konrad Kording; 8. Post-retrieval inhibition in sequential memory
search Eddy J. Davelaar; Part II. Computational Neuroscience Models: 9.
Introduction to Part II: computational neuroscience models Tony J.
Prescott, Joanna J. Bryson and Anil K. Seth; 10. Action selection and
refinement in subcortical loops through basal ganglia and cerebellum James
C. Houk; 11. Cortical mechanisms of action selection: the affordance
competition hypothesis Paul Cisek; 12. Toward an executive without a
homunculus: computational models of the prefrontal/basal ganglia system
Thomas E. Hazy, Michael J. Frank and Randall C. O'Reilly; 13.
Hierarchically organized behaviour and its neural foundations Matthew M.
Botvinick, Yael Niv and Andrew C. Barto; 14. The medial reticular
formation: a brainstem substrate for simple action selection? Mark D.
Humphries, Kevin N. Gurney and Tony J. Prescott; 15. Understanding decision
making deficits in neurological conditions: insights from models of natural
action selection Michael J. Frank, Anouk Scheres and Scott J. Sherman; 16.
Biologically constrained action selection improves cognitive control in a
model of the Stroop task Tom Stafford and Kevin N. Gurney; 17. Mechanisms
of choice in the primate brain: a quick look at positive feedback Jonathan
M. Chambers, Kevin N. Gurney, Mark D. Humphries and Tony J. Prescott; Part
III. Action Selection in Social Contexts: 18. Introduction to Part III:
action selection in social contexts Joanna J. Bryson, Tony J. Prescott and
Anil K. Seth; 19. Agent-based models as scientific methodology: a case
study analyzing the DomWorld theory of primate social structure and female
dominance Joanna J. Bryson, Yasushi Ando and Hagen Lehmann; 20. An
agent-based model of group decision making in baboons Russell A. Hill,
Brian S. Logan, William I. Sellers and Julian Zappala; 21. Endogenous birth
and death of political parties in dynamic party competition Michael Laver,
Ernest Sergenti and Michel Schilperoord; 22. On optimal decision-making in
brains and social insect colonies James A. R. Marshall, Rafal Bogacz, Anna
Dornhaus, Robert Planqué, Tim Kovacs and Nigel R. Franks; 23.
State-dependent foraging rules for social animals in selfish herds Sean A.
Rands, Richard A. Pettifor, J. Marcus Rowcliffe and Guy Cowlishaw; Index.