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The Inner World As a Consequence of Behavioural and Perceptual Simulation

Faculty of Medicine Lund University. The Inner World As a Consequence of Behavioural and Perceptual Simulation. Germund Hesslow Birmingham 200 3. Problems of the inner world. How does the inner world arise? What is the function of the inner world?

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The Inner World As a Consequence of Behavioural and Perceptual Simulation

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  1. Faculty of Medicine Lund University The Inner World As a Consequence of Behavioural and Perceptual Simulation Germund Hesslow Birmingham 2003

  2. Problems of the inner world • How does the inner world arise? • What is the function of the inner world? • Can animals and robots have inner worlds?

  3. The Simulation Hypothesis • Behavioural simulation: early stages of an action can occur without causing overt movement. 2) Perceptual simulation: perceptual activity can be elicited within the brain without an external stimulus. 3) Anticipation: simulated perception can be elicited by (simulated) behaviour.

  4. David Hume (1711-76)

  5. Alexander Bain (1818-1903)

  6. Simulation of behaviour: covert, incipient behaviour ’The tendency of the idea of an action to produce the fact, shows that the idea is already the fact in a weaker form. Thinking is restrained speaking or acting.’ (Bain, 1868 p 340) Analogues: Have the radio on but the volume turned down. Have the car engine running but with no clutch

  7. Hierarchical organisation of action Draw triangle Get pen Get paper Draw Draw horizontal line Draw sloping …. Contract m brachioradialis Contract ....

  8. Main signal flow

  9. Evidence for covert behaviour Imaging studies Lesion studies Electrophysiology Behavioural experiments

  10. Covert behaviour – primary motor cortex Extension Extension Flexion Flexion Subjects were instructed to imagine forearm flexion¯ extension movements with their right arm. TMS was applied to the motor cortex on one side, and the MEPs were recorded from the contralateral flexor muscle (biceps brachialis). Fadiga et al. Neuropsychologia, 37:147-158, 1999

  11. Simulation of Perception:sensory reactivation ‘What is the manner of occupation of the brain with a resuscitated feeling of resistance, a smell or a sound? There is only one answer that seems admissible. The renewed feeling occupies the very same parts, and in the same manner, as the original feeling, and no other parts, nor in any other assignable manner. ‘ (Bain, 1868, p. 338)

  12. Pain Perception

  13. Phantom pain

  14. Seeing

  15. Imaging

  16. Evidence for perceptual simulation Behavioural experiments Imaging studies Lesion studies Electrophysiology

  17. Mental rotation

  18. MRI signal intensity in visual cortex during external vs imagined stimulus Le Bihan et al. PNAS 90:11802-11805, 1993

  19. MRI activity with external and imagined stimulus Tootell et al, TINS, 2: 174-183, 1998

  20. I am NOT suggesting That the brain creates an image,a representation or a unified experience of the sensory input or that that image is then inspected to guide behaviour

  21. I AM suggesting That a complex stimulus can elicit many different behaviours, such as describing the stimulus verbally, pointingtowards it, avoiding it, drawing it… The same is true about an internally generated stimulus.

  22. Anticipation:action-sensation associations ’The succession designated as cause and effect, are fixed in the mind by Contiguity. The simplest activity is where our own activity is the cause. We strike a blow, and there comes a noise and a fracture. … Hardly any bond of association arrives sooner at maturity, than the bond between our own actions and the sensible effects that follow from them.’ (Bain, 1868, p. 427)

  23. Predictable consequence S1 s1 r1 R1 r2 S2 s2 R2

  24. Anticipation S1 s1 r1 R1 S2 s2 r2 R2

  25. Anticipation – no maps Tolman & Gleitman (1949) J Exp Psych39: 810-819.

  26. Behavioural chain Simulation of behavioural chain

  27. Do we need cognitive maps? A B C D E F G H LF(G) D RF(G) E

  28. rCBF during Tower of London task Baker et el., Neuropsychologia. 34:515-26, 1996

  29. Conversation

  30. Talking to oneself

  31. Simulating conversation

  32. Why do motor structures participate in cognitive functions ? • Thinking is covert movement • Abstract actions need similar auxiliary systems

  33. Working Memory as Covert Actions Extended in Time • Predictions: • Working memory • involves prefrontal and posterior (sensory) cortex • utilises the same circuitry as long-term memory • is modality and feature specific

  34. Strong points of the simulation hypothesis • Ontological parsimony: no representations, images … • No evolutionary leaps: same structures underlying inner world as are used for perception and movement • Explains relationship between cognitive and motor functions

  35. Problems of the inner world • How does the inner world arise? By simulation of behaviour and perception • What is the function of the inner world? Inevitable consequence of simulation • Can animals and robots have inner worlds? Yes, if their ”brains” can generate their own input

  36. Outline of the simulation hypothesis can be found in Hesslow G (2002) Conscious thought as simulation of behaviour and perception. Trends Cogn Sci, 6:242-247 Many of the critical ideas can be found in the behaviourist literature, for instance Bain A (1855, 1868) The Senses and the Intellect Skinner BF (1974) About Behaviorism. Knopf, New York For empirical evidence for covert behaviour, see papers by Jeannerod, e.g. Jeannerod M (1994) The representing brain: Neural correlates of motor intention and imagery. Behav Brain Sci 17: 187-245 Evidence for simulation of perception is reviewed in Kosslyn SM (1994) Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate. MIT Press, Cambridge Robot simulation Ziemke T, Jirenhed D-A, Hesslow G (2002) Blind adaptive Behavior Based on Internal Simulation of Perception. Technical report HS-IDA-TR-02-001 More information on my website www.mphy.lu.se/avd/nf/hesslow References

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