Neural Executive Attentional Control in Robots

We have developed a robot controller based upon a neural implementation of Norman and Shallice's model of executive attentional control in humans. A simulation illustrates how attentional control leads to the suppression of action selection errors in neurally controlled robots. A related demonstration illustrates how lesioning of the control architecture leads to behavioural pathologies that resemble those seen in human patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IJCAI
• Authors: Jason Garforth, Sue L. McHale, Anthony Meehan
• Keywords: Action Selection Errors, Attentional Control, Executive Attentional Control, IJCAI 2003, IJCAI 2007