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This work proposes a biologically plausible cognitive architecture implemented in spiking neurons, which is based on well- established models of neuronal global workspace, action selection in the basal ganglia and corticothalamic circuits and can be used to control agents in virtual or physical environments. The aim of this system is the investigation of a number of aspects of cognition using real embodied systems, such as the ability of the brain to globally access and process information concurrently, as well as the ability to simulate potential future scenarios and use these predictions to drive action selection.
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Fountas, Z., Shanahan, M. (2013). A Cognitive Neural Architecture as a Robot Controller. In: Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Krapp, H.G., Verschure, P.F.M.J., Prescott, T.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8064. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39802-5_38
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