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The acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles under active inference
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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:21 authored by Axel Constant, Alexander Tschantz, Beren Millidge, Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M Martinez, Johannes Müeller, Andrew ClarkAndrew ClarkThis paper presents an active inference based simulation study of visual foraging. The goal of the simulation is to show the effect of the acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles on cognitive task performance, under active inference. We show how cultural artefacts like antique vase decorations drive cognitive functions such as perception, action and learning, as well as task performance in a simple visual discrimination task. We thus describe a new active inference based research pipeline that future work may employ to inquire on deep guiding principles determining the manner in which material culture drives human thought, by building and rebuilding our patterns of attention.
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Frontiers in NeuroroboticsISSN
1662-5218Publisher
Frontiers MediaExternal DOI
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15Page range
1-13Article number
a729665Event location
SwitzerlandDepartment affiliated with
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2022-01-17First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2022-01-17Usage metrics
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