Contents

pp v-vii

Foreword

pp viii-x

Preface

pp xi-xi

Contributors

pp xii-xvi

1 - General introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - Rational and optimal decision making

pp 5-6

2 - Introduction to Part I: rational and optimal decision making

pp 7-11

3 - Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour?

pp 12-36

4 - Optimised agent-based modelling of action selection

pp 37-60

5 - Compromise strategies for action selection

pp 61-90

6 - Extending a biologically inspired model of choice: multi-alternatives, nonlinearity, and value-based multidimensional choice

pp 91-119

7 - Bayesian approaches to modelling action selection

pp 120-143

8 - Post-retrieval inhibition in sequential memory search1

pp 144-166

Part II - Computational neuroscience models

pp 167-168

9 - Introduction to Part II: computational neuroscience models

pp 169-175

10 - Action selection and refinement in subcortical loops through basal ganglia and cerebellum

pp 176-207

11 - Cortical mechanisms of action selection: the affordance competition hypothesis

pp 208-238

12 - Toward an executive without a homunculus: computational models of the prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia system

pp 239-263

13 - Hierarchically organised behaviour and its neural foundations: a reinforcement-learning perspective

pp 264-299

14 - The medial reticular formation: a brainstem substrate for simple action selection?

pp 300-329

15 - Understanding decision-making deficits in neurological conditions: insights from models of natural action selection

pp 330-362

16 - Biologically constrained action selection improves cognitive control in a model of the Stroop task

pp 363-389

17 - Mechanisms of choice in the primate brain: a quick look at positive feedback

pp 390-418

Part III - Action selection in social contexts

pp 419-420

18 - Introduction to Part III: action selection in social contexts

pp 421-426

19 - Agent-based models as scientific methodology: a case study analysing the DomWorld theory of primate social structure and female dominance

pp 427-453

20 - An agent-based model of group decision making in baboons

pp 454-476

21 - Endogenous birth and death of political parties in dynamic party competition

pp 477-499

22 - On optimal decision making in brains and social insect colonies

pp 500-522