CPS reading group 4/03
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Thomas Graham
Feb 26, 2026, 9:16:50 PM (13 days ago) Feb 26
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Hi all,
This week, the CPS reading group will be reading "The Evolution of
Cognitive Search" by Hills and Dukas. You can find the paper attached
to this email.
For the first few weeks of semester, the group will meet
at10:30-11:30am on Wednesday, in room 6.71. You can find the abstract
below, and the zoom link below that.
If you are a regular attendee of the CPS group, and you cannot make
this time slot due to changes in schedules as we spool up into the
semester, please let me know, and I will put together a poll to see if
we can find a time that everyone can make.
Cheers,
Tom
Abstract:
Search can be defined as an attempt to arrive at a goal at an unknown
location in the physical environment, as well as in time, memory, or
any other space. Search is necessary because the quantity and quality
of resources essential to survival and reproduction vary in space and
time. In addition to exploration through actual body movement in their
environment, animals search their external information space through
selective allocation of attention and their internal information space
to retrieve relevant items from memory. This chapter integrates data
on search in three distinct domains—physical movement, attention to
external information, and locating items in memory—to highlight the
remarkable similarities between these three domains. First, resources
in all three domains are typically distributed in patches. Second, in
each of the three domains, animals typically keep searching in patches
where they have recently found resources and leave areas when none are
found or where they have already depleted the resources. Third, the
neurobiological mechanisms modulating the exploration for and
exploitation of resources in all three domains involve dopamine as
well as, in many vertebrates, regions of the prefrontal cortex and
striatum. It is suggested that, throughout evolution, animals co-opted
existing strategies and mechanisms used to search their physical space
for exploring and exploiting internal and external information spaces.
The cross-disciplinary integration of theory and data about search can
be used to guide future research on the mechanisms underlying
cognitive search.
Zoom link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/84613271309?pwd=368zBkkuTfPFWqTNxLoTxOOV8QM9JW.1
This week, the CPS reading group will be reading "The Evolution of
Cognitive Search" by Hills and Dukas. You can find the paper attached
to this email.
For the first few weeks of semester, the group will meet
at10:30-11:30am on Wednesday, in room 6.71. You can find the abstract
below, and the zoom link below that.
If you are a regular attendee of the CPS group, and you cannot make
this time slot due to changes in schedules as we spool up into the
semester, please let me know, and I will put together a poll to see if
we can find a time that everyone can make.
Cheers,
Tom
Abstract:
Search can be defined as an attempt to arrive at a goal at an unknown
location in the physical environment, as well as in time, memory, or
any other space. Search is necessary because the quantity and quality
of resources essential to survival and reproduction vary in space and
time. In addition to exploration through actual body movement in their
environment, animals search their external information space through
selective allocation of attention and their internal information space
to retrieve relevant items from memory. This chapter integrates data
on search in three distinct domains—physical movement, attention to
external information, and locating items in memory—to highlight the
remarkable similarities between these three domains. First, resources
in all three domains are typically distributed in patches. Second, in
each of the three domains, animals typically keep searching in patches
where they have recently found resources and leave areas when none are
found or where they have already depleted the resources. Third, the
neurobiological mechanisms modulating the exploration for and
exploitation of resources in all three domains involve dopamine as
well as, in many vertebrates, regions of the prefrontal cortex and
striatum. It is suggested that, throughout evolution, animals co-opted
existing strategies and mechanisms used to search their physical space
for exploring and exploiting internal and external information spaces.
The cross-disciplinary integration of theory and data about search can
be used to guide future research on the mechanisms underlying
cognitive search.
Zoom link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/84613271309?pwd=368zBkkuTfPFWqTNxLoTxOOV8QM9JW.1
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