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title: "Neural Executive Attentional Control in Robots"
authors:
  - "Jason P. Garforth"
  - "Sue L. McHale"
  - "Anthony Meehan"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/250"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0250.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1501-1501"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Neural Executive Attentional Control in Robots

Jason P. Garforth, Sue L. McHale, Anthony Meehan

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1501-1501.

## Abstract

We have developed a robot controller based upon a neural implementation of Norman and Shallice's model of executive attentional control in humans. A simulation illustrates how attentional control leads to the suppression of action selection errors in neurally controlled robots. A related demonstration illustrates how lesioning of the control architecture leads to behavioural pathologies that resemble those seen in human patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex.