Banishing the homunculus: making working memory work.

By Thomas E. Hazy, Michael J Frank, Randall C. O’Reilly. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Neural Turing Machines (2014, background): “Modeling studies of working memory range from those that consider how biophysical circuits could implement persistent neuronal firing (Wang, 1999) to those that try to solve explicit tasks (Hazy et al., 2006) (Dayan, 2008) (Eliasmith, 2013).”
Simple Substrates for Complex Cognition (2008, background): “The whole architecture of the policy for solving this task that underlies the hand-crafted solution in Frank et al. (2001) and the learned solution in Hazy et al. (2006) is completely different from this.”
Multilevel structure in behaviour and in the brain: a model of Fuster's hierarchy (2007, background): “The question of how this problem is solved in the brain is a topic of active research (O’Reilly & Frank 2006; Hazy et al. 2006), and as answers take shape it will be interesting to investigate whether the relevant algorithms give rise to the same relationship between hierarchical connectivity and fu”
The multi-component model of working memory: explorations in experimental cognitive psychology. (2006, background): “Some have argued (see Postle, 2006; azy et al., 2006), that working memory might prove to be n emergent property, a product of the interaction of a ighly distributed neuronal system.”
Dopamine, Affordance and Active Inference (2012, background): “Dopamine has been implicated in a bewildering variety of processes and pathologies in the human brain; ranging from cortical excitability to attentional deficits [5], [6]; from motor control to akinesia and set switching deficits in Parkinson’s disease [7], [8], [9]; from working memory to schizophr”
Towards an executive without a homunculus: computational models of the prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia system (2007, methodology): “The six functional demands described above have been published previously in more basic form (Hazy et al. 2006).”