Optimal behavioral hierarchy.

Human behavior has long been recognized to display hierarchical structure: actions fit together into subtasks, which cohere into extended goal-directed activities. Arranging actions hierarchically has well established benefits, allowing behaviors to be represented efficiently by the brain, and allow...

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Main Authors: Alec Solway, Carlos Diuk, Natalia Córdova, Debbie Yee, Andrew G Barto, Yael Niv, Matthew M Botvinick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4133163?pdf=render