Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection

Organisms must cope with different risk/reward landscapes in their ecological niche. Hence, species have evolved behavior and cognitive processes to optimally balance approach and avoidance. Navigation through space, including taking detours, appears also to be an essential element of consciousness....

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Autores principales:	Trond A. Tjøstheim, Birger Johansson, Christian Balkenius
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	detour task egocentric navigation allocentric navigation navigational strategy selection consciousness inhibition Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry RC321-571
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:77c9497142344f418f3fdf5e71d2dd682021-11-09T16:26:56ZDirect Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection1662-513710.3389/fnsys.2021.752219https://doaj.org/article/77c9497142344f418f3fdf5e71d2dd682021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2021.752219/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1662-5137Organisms must cope with different risk/reward landscapes in their ecological niche. Hence, species have evolved behavior and cognitive processes to optimally balance approach and avoidance. Navigation through space, including taking detours, appears also to be an essential element of consciousness. Such processes allow organisms to negotiate predation risk and natural geometry that obstruct foraging. One aspect of this is the ability to inhibit a direct approach toward a reward. Using an adaptation of the well-known detour paradigm in comparative psychology, but in a virtual world, we simulate how different neural configurations of inhibitive processes can yield behavior that approximates characteristics of different species. Results from simulations may help elucidate how evolutionary adaptation can shape inhibitive processing in particular and behavioral selection in general. More specifically, results indicate that both the level of inhibition that an organism can exert and the size of neural populations dedicated to inhibition contribute to successful detour navigation. According to our results, both factors help to facilitate detour behavior, but the latter (i.e., larger neural populations) appears to specifically reduce behavioral variation.Trond A. TjøstheimBirger JohanssonChristian BalkeniusFrontiers Media S.A.articledetour taskegocentric navigationallocentric navigationnavigational strategy selectionconsciousnessinhibitionNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryRC321-571ENFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
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topic	detour task egocentric navigation allocentric navigation navigational strategy selection consciousness inhibition Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry RC321-571
spellingShingle	detour task egocentric navigation allocentric navigation navigational strategy selection consciousness inhibition Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry RC321-571 Trond A. Tjøstheim Birger Johansson Christian Balkenius Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection
description	Organisms must cope with different risk/reward landscapes in their ecological niche. Hence, species have evolved behavior and cognitive processes to optimally balance approach and avoidance. Navigation through space, including taking detours, appears also to be an essential element of consciousness. Such processes allow organisms to negotiate predation risk and natural geometry that obstruct foraging. One aspect of this is the ability to inhibit a direct approach toward a reward. Using an adaptation of the well-known detour paradigm in comparative psychology, but in a virtual world, we simulate how different neural configurations of inhibitive processes can yield behavior that approximates characteristics of different species. Results from simulations may help elucidate how evolutionary adaptation can shape inhibitive processing in particular and behavioral selection in general. More specifically, results indicate that both the level of inhibition that an organism can exert and the size of neural populations dedicated to inhibition contribute to successful detour navigation. According to our results, both factors help to facilitate detour behavior, but the latter (i.e., larger neural populations) appears to specifically reduce behavioral variation.
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author	Trond A. Tjøstheim Birger Johansson Christian Balkenius
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title	Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection
title_short	Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection
title_full	Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection
title_fullStr	Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection
title_full_unstemmed	Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection
title_sort	direct approach or detour: a comparative model of inhibition and neural ensemble size in behavior selection
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/77c9497142344f418f3fdf5e71d2dd68
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Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection

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