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Mechanistic Models for Attending and Acquiring Mental Models of the World Mechanistic Models for Attending and Acquiring Mental Models of the World
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Attention and Knowledge Acquisition by the Kalman Estimator Attention and Knowledge Acquisition by the Kalman Estimator
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Knowledge Acquisition by the Yufik Virtual Associative Network Knowledge Acquisition by the Yufik Virtual Associative Network
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Normative Models for Deciding Where to Attend Normative Models for Deciding Where to Attend
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Probability and Bayesian Updating Probability and Bayesian Updating
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Using Information Value When Stimuli Are Only Known as Probabilities Using Information Value When Stimuli Are Only Known as Probabilities
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Dynamic Programming to Optimize Attention to Previewed Stimuli Dynamic Programming to Optimize Attention to Previewed Stimuli
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Optimal Temporal Sampling Optimal Temporal Sampling
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Fuzzy Rules to Decide Where to Attend Fuzzy Rules to Decide Where to Attend
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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2 Attention and Its Allocation: Fragments of a Model
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Published:December 2006
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Abstract
Attention can be either voluntary or involuntary, and it can be either exteroceptive or non-exteroceptive. This chapter deals mostly with exteroceptive attention, because what produces attention by the brain in the absence of overt, observable triggering events seems much more difficult to grapple with. Non-exteroceptive attention typically occurs over longer time periods (for example, reflecting on last night's party). Many different words seem to relate to attention but are not quite the same in meaning: situation awareness, mental workload, vigilance, fatigue, drowsiness, alertness, activation, and distraction. In the spirit of this book honoring Christopher Wickens, this chapter reviews several different behavior modeling ideas. It offers an engineering approach to attentional control, discussing how concepts such as fuzzy logic, Kalman estimators, Yufix virtual associative networks, and Bayesian logic might be used to provide quantitative predictions concerning the manner in which attention is allocated in complex tasks.
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