We discuss how cybernetic principles of feedback control, used to explain sensorimotor
behavior, can be extended to provide a foundation for understanding cognition. In particular …

For decades, classic theories of action control and action awareness have been built around
the idea that the brain predictively 'cancels' expected action outcomes from perception …

Skilled sensorimotor interactions with the world result from a series of decision-making
processes that determine, on the basis of information extracted during the unfolding …

The neural bases of behavior are often discussed in terms of perceptual, cognitive, and
motor stages, defined within an information processing framework that was originally …

At every moment, the natural world presents animals with two fundamental pragmatic
problems: selection between actions that are currently possible and specification of the …

The ability to establish behaviorally what psychological capacity an animal is deploying—to
discern accurately what an animal is doing—is key to functional analyses of the brain. Our …

Neurophysiological studies of decision-making have focused primarily on elucidating the
mechanisms of classic economic decisions, for which the relevant variables are the values …

The concept of affordance is rapidly gaining popularity in neuroscientific accounts of
perception and action. This concept was introduced by James Gibson to refer to the action …

A hallmark of adaptation in humans and other animals is our ability to control how we think
and behave across different settings. Research has characterized the various forms …

Understanding the effects of motivation on instrumental action selection, and specifically on
its two main forms, goal-directed and habitual control, is fundamental to the study of decision …