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Towards a Control Theory of Attention

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An engineering control approach to attention is developed here, based on the original CODAM (COrollary Discharge of Attention Movement) model. Support for the existence in the brain of the various modules thereby introduced is presented, especially those components involving an observer. The manner in which the model can be extended to executive functions involving the prefrontal cortices is then outlined, Finally the manner in which conscious experience may be supported by the architecture is described.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, King’s College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    John G. Taylor

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 157 80, Zographou, GR, Greece

    Stefanos Kollias

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780, Zographou, Greece

    Andreas Stafylopatis

  3. Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

    Włodzisław Duch

  4. Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5400, 02015, HUT, Finland

    Erkki Oja

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Taylor, J.G. (2006). Towards a Control Theory of Attention. In: Kollias, S., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., Oja, E. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006. ICANN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11840930_48

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