Titre du document / Document title

Hierarchical schemas and goals in the control of sequential behavior. Comment. Authors' reply

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

COOPER Richard P. ^{(1 2)} ; SHALLICE Tim ^{(2 3)} ; BOTVINICK Matthew M. (Commentateur (texte écrit)) ⁽⁴⁾ ; PLAUT David C. (Commentateur (texte écrit)) ⁽⁵⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Birkbeck, University of London, London, ROYAUME-UNI
⁽²⁾ University College London, London, ROYAUME-UNI
⁽³⁾ Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, ITALIE
⁽⁴⁾ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ETATS-UNIS
⁽⁵⁾ Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, ETATS-UNIS

Résumé / Abstract

Traditional accounts of sequential behavior assume that schemas and goals play a causal role in the control of behavior. In contrast, M. Botvinick and D. C. Plaut (2004) argued that, at least in routine behavior, schemas and goals are epiphenomenal. The authors evaluate the Botvinick and Plaut account by contrasting the simple recurrent network model of Botvinick and Plaut with their own more traditional hierarchically structured interactive activation model (R. P. Cooper & T. Shallice, 2000). The authors present a range of arguments and additional simulations that demonstrate theoretical and empirical difficulties for both Botvinick and Plaut's model and their theoretical position. The authors conclude that explicit hierarchically organized and causally efficacious schema and goal representations are required to provide an adequate account of the flexibility of sequential behavior.

Revue / Journal Title

Psychological review   ISSN 0033-295X   CODEN PSRVAX 

Source / Source

2006, vol. 113, n^o4, pp. 887-931 [45 page(s) (article)] (dissem.)

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, ETATS-UNIS  (1894) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Nervous system diseases ; Central nervous system disease ; Human ; Action ; Cerebral disorder ; Behavioral sequence ; Cognitive control ; Neural network ; Scheme ; Activation ; Cognition ; Procedural memory ; Cognitive disorder ; Comparative study ; Behavior ; Goal ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Système nerveux pathologie ; Système nerveux central pathologie ; Homme ; Action ; Encéphale pathologie ; Séquence comportement ; Contrôle cognitif ; Réseau neuronal ; Schéma ; Activation ; Cognition ; Mémoire procédurale ; Trouble cognition ; Etude comparative ; Comportement ; But ;

Mots-clés espagnols / Spanish Keywords

Sistema nervioso patología ; Sistema nervosio central patología ; Hombre ; Acción ; Encéfalo patología ; Secuencia conducta ; Control cognitivo ; Red neuronal ; Esquema ; Activación ; Cognición ; Memoria procedural ; Trastorno cognitivo ; Estudio comparativo ; Conducta ; Fin ;

Mots-clés d'auteur / Author Keywords

control of routine behavior ; localist versus distributed representations ; simple recurrent networks ; neuropsychological impairments of action sequential action ; computational modeling ; procedural memory routine action ; action schema ; goals ; simple recurrent network ; interactive activation network ;

Localisation / Location

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