The emergence of goals in a self-organizing network: A non-mentalist model of intentional actions

Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 156-171

  Louzoun, Yoram ^a   Atlan, Henri ^b,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Goal directed; Intentions; Mental states; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

GOAL DIRECTED ACTIONS; MENTAL STATES; NON MENTALIST DESCRIPTION; SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTRON; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 33847102215     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.05.032     Document Type: Article

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