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Cognitive development in context: Learning to pay attention

Balkenius, Christian LU orcid and Zücker Björne, Petra LU (2004) p.190-198
Abstract
A developing system must be able to learn new things

without forgetting what it has learned before. It should be

capable of reacting in different ways to the same stimuli in different contexts. Context sensitive reinforcement learning, which parallels some of the functions of the basal ganglia, is a learning algorithm that fulfills this requirement when the context is explicitly given. Here, we extend the algorithm with the ability to identify the relevant features of the environment that defines the context. It is suggested that this is a critical component of an architecture for cognitive development and we present simulation results that illustrate the operation of the system.
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning 04
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Triesch, Jochen ; Jebara, Tony and Deák, Gedeon
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190 - 198
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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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Ikaros: An infrastructure for system level modelling of the brain
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English
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  abstract     = {{A developing system must be able to learn new things<br/><br>
without forgetting what it has learned before. It should be<br/><br>
capable of reacting in different ways to the same stimuli in different contexts. Context sensitive reinforcement learning, which parallels some of the functions of the basal ganglia, is a learning algorithm that fulfills this requirement when the context is explicitly given. Here, we extend the algorithm with the ability to identify the relevant features of the environment that defines the context. It is suggested that this is a critical component of an architecture for cognitive development and we present simulation results that illustrate the operation of the system.}},
  author       = {{Balkenius, Christian and Zücker Björne, Petra}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning 04}},
  editor       = {{Triesch, Jochen and Jebara, Tony and Deák, Gedeon}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{190--198}},
  publisher    = {{The Salk Institute for Biological Studies}},
  title        = {{Cognitive development in context: Learning to pay attention}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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