Journal
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue 2, Pages 252-267Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17470211003668272
Keywords
Cognitive control; Model-based approach; Model; Reinforcement learning; Action regulation
Funding
- European Community
- Medical Research Council UK
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- James Martin 21st Century School
- Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
- Wellcome Trust
- Somerville College
- MRC [G0802146] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0802146] Funding Source: researchfish
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We discuss a recent approach to investigating cognitive control, which has the potential to deal with some of the challenges inherent in this endeavour. In a model-based approach, the researcher defines a formal, computational model that performs the task at hand and whose performance matches that of a research participant. The internal variables in such a model might then be taken as proxies for latent variables computed in the brain. We discuss the potential advantages of such an approach for the study of the neural underpinnings of cognitive control and its pitfalls, and we make explicit the assumptions underlying the interpretation of data obtained using this approach.
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