A neuro-computational model of sequence learning in macaques: the Simultaneous Chaining Paradigm. (August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gasser, Brad; Arbib, Michael A
• Is Part Of: Adaptive behavior. Volume 25:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 195
• Page End: 213
• Publication Date: 2017-08
• Subjects: Sequence learning -- macaques -- Simultaneous Chaining Paradigm -- competitive queuing -- augmented competitive queuing -- reservoir computing; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Animals -- Adaptation -- Periodicals; Adaptability (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Adaptation, Psychological -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; 591.5
• DOI: 10.1177/1059712317715324
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-2633

Abstract

We present a novel model, SCP1, of monkey sequence learning that takes the processes of stimulus recognition and motor planning seriously in addressing a robust dataset on list learning obtained through the Simultaneous Chaining Paradigm (SCP). Strikingly, SCP violates stimulus-response (S-R) mappings in that after several different lists are learned, monkeys are able to conserve this learning on a new list which is "conserved" in the sense that the j th element is specified as the j th element of any one of the previously learned lists. We demonstrate list acquisition as a result of multiple concurrent learning processes that together contribute to competent performance. In addition to reproducing behavioral results, we offer observations linking the work to macaque neurophysiology.