Perception-Action Cycle Models, Architectures, and Hardware
The perception-action cycle is the circular flow of information that takes place between the organism and its environment in the course of a sensory-guided sequence of behavior towards a goal. Each action causes changes in the environment that are analyze
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Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems Volume 1 Series Editors John G. Taylor King’s College, London, UK Vassilis Cutsuridis Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Vassilis Cutsuridis John G. Taylor
Amir Hussain
Editors
Perception-Action Cycle Models, Architectures, and Hardware
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Editors Vassilis Cutsuridis Department of Psychology Center for Memory and Brain Boston University Boston, MA 02215 USA [email protected]
John G. Taylor Department of Mathematics King’s College London UK [email protected]
Amir Hussain Department of Computing Science and Mathematics University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-1451-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1452-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1452-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920805 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The perception–action cycle has been described by the eminent neuroscientist JM Fuster as the circular flow of information that takes place between the organism and its environment in the course of a sensory-guided sequence of behaviour towards a goal. Each action in the sequence causes certain changes in the environment that are analysed bottom-up through the perceptual hierarchy and leads to the processing of further action, top-down through the executive hierarchy, towards motor effectors. These cause new changes that are analysed and lead to new action, and so on. This book provides a snapshot and a resum´e of the current state-of-the-art of the ongoing research avenues concerning the perception–action cycle. The central aim of the volume is to be an informational resource and a methodology for anyone interested in constructing and developing models, algorithms and hardware implementations of autonomous machines empowered with cognitive capabilities. The book is divided into three thematic areas: (1) computational neuroscience models, (2) cognitive architectures and (3) hardware implementations. In the first thematic area, leading computational neuroscientists present brain-inspired models of perception, attention, cognitive control, decision making, conflict resolution and monitoring,
