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Tony J. Prescott
Researcher at University of Sheffield
Publications - 243
Citations - 9793
Tony J. Prescott is an academic researcher from University of Sheffield. The author has contributed to research in topics: Robot & Social robot. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 236 publications receiving 8786 citations. Previous affiliations of Tony J. Prescott include CGG & University of the West of England.
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The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?
TL;DR: It is proposed that the vertebrate basal ganglia have evolved as a centralized selection device, specialized to resolve conflicts over access to limited motor and cognitive resources.
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A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. I. A new functional anatomy.
TL;DR: A biologically plausible model of processing intrinsic to the basal ganglia based on the computational premise that action selection is a primary role of these central brain structures is presented.
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The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network
TL;DR: It is concluded that the medial RF is configured to create small-world (implying coherent rapid-processing capabilities), but not scale-free, type networks under assumptions which are amenable to quantitative measurement.
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Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?
TL;DR: It is suggested that the initial burst of dopaminergic-neurone firing could represent an essential component in the process of switching attentional and behavioural selections to unexpected, behaviourally important stimuli and might be part of a general short-latency response that is mediated by catecholamines and prepares the organism for an appropriate reaction to biologically significant events.
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A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour.
TL;DR: In this article, a new functional architecture was proposed for the basal ganglia based on the premise that these brain structures play a central role in behavioural action selection, which is supported by the decomposition of the basal brain into selection and control pathways.