Linking Perception, Cognition, and Action: Psychophysical Observations and Neural Network Modelling

I have added a comment that is independent of the level of grasp!
Warren

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On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ted Cloak tcloak@unm.edu wrote:

Would someone with a better grasp of this stuff please write a comment on this article? I searched for Powers, Marken, control, and feedback, and found no meaningful use of any.

Ted

Linking Perception, Cognition, and Action: Psychophysical Observations and Neural Network Modelling

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0102553


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[From Rick Marken (2014.08.04.0900)]

Would someone with a better grasp of this stuff please write a comment on this article? I searched for Powers, Marken, control, and feedback, and found no meaningful use of any.

RM: That's because they don't understand that they are dealing with purposeful behavior! Their model accounts for the observed behavior of the subjects when the subjects' purpose corresponds (at least qualitatively) to what the experimenters wanted their purpose to be: moving a cursor to indicate which interval was longer. If the subject's don't adopt that purpose -- for example, if they adopt the purpose of leaving the room -- then their model doesn't work at all. there has to be something in the model that represents the potentially variable purpose of the subjects. that variable is, of course, the reference signal in PCT. This is why Warren's comment is perfectly correct! I will add this point as a comment myself, if I am able to register for PloS.
Best regards
Rick

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