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| Mattew M BotvinickSummaryAffiliation: Princeton University Country: USA Publications
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Hierarchical reinforcement learning and decision makingMatthew Michael Botvinick
Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, United States
Curr Opin Neurobiol 22:956-62. 2012....- Planning as inferenceMatthew Botvinick
Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 16:485-8. 2012.... - Commentary: why I am not a dynamicistMatthew Botvinick
Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Top Cogn Sci 4:78-83; discussion 94-102. 2012..In the latter form, dynamical systems theory can rise to some stirring rhetorical heights. However, as argued here, it also triggers a number of serious and specific reservations... 
Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: a reinforcement learning perspectiveMatthew M Botvinick
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Cognition 113:262-80. 2009..Here and at many other points, hierarchical reinforcement learning offers an appealing framework for investigating the computational and neural underpinnings of hierarchically structured behavior...- Anticipation of cognitive demand during decision-makingMatthew M Botvinick
Department of Psychology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Psychol Res 73:835-42. 2009..We argue, based on convergent evidence, that such anticipation may not only trigger preparation; it may also play a direct role in effort-based decision-making... - Toward an integrated account of object and action selection: a computational analysis and empirical findings from reaching-to-grasp and tool-useMatthew M Botvinick
Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, United States
Neuropsychologia 47:671-83. 2009..Our findings provide support for the computational model, and more broadly for an interactive account of object and action selection... - Effort discounting in human nucleus accumbensMatthew M Botvinick
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 9:16-27. 2009.... - An analysis of immediate serial recall performance in a macaqueMatthew M Botvinick
Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Anim Cogn 12:671-8. 2009..Detailed analysis of the monkey's recall performance indicates a number of important parallels with human ISR, consistent with the idea that a single mechanism for short-term serial order memory may be shared across species... - Empirical and computational support for context-dependent representations of serial order: reply to Bowers, Damian, and Davis (2009)Matthew M Botvinick
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Psychol Rev 116:998-1002. 2009..The authors reply here, addressing both Bowers et al.'s criticisms of the Botvinick and Plaut model and the former's assessment of parallel distributed processing models in general... - Hierarchical models of behavior and prefrontal functionMatthew M Botvinick
Department of Psychology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 12:201-8. 2008..In addition to offering explanations for some key aspects of behavior and functional neuroanatomy, the latest models also pose new questions for empirical research... 
Conflict monitoring and decision making: reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate functionMattew M Botvinick
Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 7:356-66. 2007..We discuss evidence favoring this proposal and present an initial computational model, which lays the foundation for further development...- From numerosity to ordinal rank: a gain-field model of serial order representation in cortical working memoryMatthew Botvinick
Psychology Department and Institute for Neuroscience, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
J Neurosci 27:8636-42. 2007..The model moves beyond previous accounts by bridging between neuroscientific findings and detailed behavioral data, and gives rise to several testable predictions... - Multilevel structure in behaviour and in the brain: a model of Fuster's hierarchyMatthew M Botvinick
Psychology Department and Institute in Neuroscience, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 362:1615-26. 2007.... - Machine learning classifiers and fMRI: a tutorial overviewFrancisco Pereira
Princeton Neuroscience Institute Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Neuroimage 45:S199-209. 2009.... - The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativityNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Psychol Rev 111:931-59. 2004..It is concluded that the ERN can be explained in terms of response conflict and that monitoring for conflict may provide a simple mechanism for detecting errors... - Resolving conflict: a response to Martin and Cheng (2006)Sharon L Thompson-Schill
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:402-8; discussion 409-11. 2006.... - Short-term memory for serial order: a recurrent neural network modelMatthew M Botvinick
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Psychol Rev 113:201-33. 2006..Taken together, the results presented indicate that recurrent neural networks may offer a useful framework for understanding short-term memory for serial order... - The conflict adaptation effect: it's not just primingMarkus Ullsperger
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:467-72. 2005..We discuss the data with respect to the conflict-monitoring and repetition-priming accounts... - Effects of domain-specific knowledge on memory for serial orderMatthew M Botvinick
Department of Psychiatry and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Cognition 97:135-51. 2005..This prediction was tested and confirmed in an experiment evaluating recall for sequences based on an artificial grammar... - Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an updateMatthew M Botvinick
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 10104 6241, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:539-46. 2004..Recent research has also begun to shed light on the larger function of the ACC, suggesting some new possibilities concerning how conflict monitoring might fit into the cingulate's overall role in cognition and action... - Error-likelihood prediction in the medial frontal cortex: a critical evaluationSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Cereb Cortex 17:1570-81. 2007..We conclude that although the EL hypothesis presents an elegant integrative account of pMFC function, it requires additional empirical support to remain tenable...
Research Grants
- Investigating language with multi-voxel pattern analysisMatthew M Botvinick; Fiscal Year: 2010..The proposed research is intended to shed light on basic aspects of normal and disordered language processing, as well as to pioneer the application of new methods for studying the neural basis of language. ..