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Stocco, Andrea; Lebiere, Christian; Anderson, John R. – Psychological Review, 2010
The basal ganglia play a central role in cognition and are involved in such general functions as action selection and reinforcement learning. Here, we present a model exploring the hypothesis that the basal ganglia implement a conditional information-routing system. The system directs the transmission of cortical signals between pairs of regions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Role, Learning Processes
Anderson, John R. – Oxford University Press, 2007
"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that. The issue is how will the mind do that as well."--Allen Newell, December 4, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University. The argument John Anderson gives…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Abstract Reasoning, Problem Solving