Cognitive conflict without explicit conflict monitoring in a dynamical agent

Neural Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1430-1436

  Ward, Robert ^a   Ward, Ronnie ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Artificial comparative psychology; Conflict monitoring; Dynamical agents; Genetic algorithms

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTIFICIAL COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY; CONFLICT MONITORING; DYNAMICAL AGENTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; LEARNING STYLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33750702571     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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