Cooper, Richard P. and Ruh, N. and Mareschal, Denis (2014) The goal circuit model: a hierarchical multi-route model of the acquisition and control of routine sequential action in humans. Cognitive Science 38 (2), pp. 244-274. ISSN 1551-6709.
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Abstract
Human control of action in routine situations involves a flexible interplay between (a) task dependent serial ordering constraints, (b) top-down, or intentional, control processes and (c) bottom-up, or environmentally-triggered, affordances. Additionally, the interaction between these influences is modulated by learning mechanisms that, over time, appear to reduce the need for top-down control processes while still allowing those processes to intervene at any point if necessary or if desired. We present a model of the acquisition and control of goal-directed action that goes beyond existing models by operationalizing an interface between two putative systems – a routine and a non-routine system – thereby demonstrating how explicitly represented goals can interact with the emergent task representations that develop through learning in the routine system. The gradual emergence of task representations offers an explanation for the transfer of control with experience from the non-routine goal-based system to the routine system. At the same time it allows action selection to be sensitive both to environmental triggers and to biasing from multiple levels within the goal system.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Embargoed until post-publication. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | routine sequential action, control of action, habits, goal-directed action, purposive-action, hierarchical tasks |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Educational Neuroscience, Centre for, Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Rick Cooper |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2013 15:46 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2025 05:36 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6013 |
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