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SUBMITTER: Solway A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4133163 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Solway Alec A Diuk Carlos C Córdova Natalia N Yee Debbie D Barto Andrew G AG Niv Yael Y Botvinick Matthew M MM
PLoS computational biology 20140814 8
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 allowing solutions to new tasks to be discovered easily. However, these payoffs depend on the particular way in which actions are organized into a hierarchy, the specific way in which tasks are carved up i ...[more]