- Title Pages
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
- 1 Six Reasons for Invoking Evolution in Decision Theory
- 2 Putting Mechanisms into Behavioral Ecology
- 3 Machinery of Cognition
- 4 Building Blocks of Human Decision Making
- 5 Error Management
- 6 Neuroethology of Decision Making
- 7 Decision Making
- 8 Robustness in Biological and Social Systems
- 9 Robust Neural Decision Making
- 10 Advantages of Cognitive Limitations
- 11 Modularity and Decision Making
- 12 Robustness in a Variable Environment
- 13 Biological Analogs of Personality
- 14 Sources of Variation within the Individual
- 15 Variation in Decision Making
- 16 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Social Behavior
- 17 Early Social Cognition
- 18 Who Cares?
- 19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior
- 20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
Robust Neural Decision Making
Robust Neural Decision Making
- Chapter:
- (p.151) 9 Robust Neural Decision Making
- Source:
- Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making
- Author(s):
Peter Dayan
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Animals are extremely robust decision makers. They make seemingly good choices in a very wide range of circumstances, using neural hardware that is noisy, labile, and error prone. This chapter considers dimensions of robustness that go beyond fault tolerance, including the effects of outliers and various forms of uncertainty, and discusses the multiple scales of robustness afforded by the rich complexities of neural control.
Keywords: Strüngmann Forum Reports, decision making, robustness, instrumental control, neural reinforcement learning, Pavlovian control, robustness, uncertainty
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- Title Pages
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
- 1 Six Reasons for Invoking Evolution in Decision Theory
- 2 Putting Mechanisms into Behavioral Ecology
- 3 Machinery of Cognition
- 4 Building Blocks of Human Decision Making
- 5 Error Management
- 6 Neuroethology of Decision Making
- 7 Decision Making
- 8 Robustness in Biological and Social Systems
- 9 Robust Neural Decision Making
- 10 Advantages of Cognitive Limitations
- 11 Modularity and Decision Making
- 12 Robustness in a Variable Environment
- 13 Biological Analogs of Personality
- 14 Sources of Variation within the Individual
- 15 Variation in Decision Making
- 16 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Social Behavior
- 17 Early Social Cognition
- 18 Who Cares?
- 19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior
- 20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
