Models and their worlds

Authors: BOURBON W.T.H.O.M.A.S.¹; POWERS W.T.²

Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 50, Number 6, June 1999 , pp. 445-461(17)

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Abstract:

Conventional behavioral models can be broadly classed as stimulus-driven (bottom-up, S–R) and brain-driven (top-down, cognitive). Perceptual control theory (PCT) uses a model that has features of both classes, and so can be difficult to distinguish from either one. The difference in PCT is not just in the model of the organism, but in the assumed properties of the world in which the organism behaves. We discuss and experimentally demonstrate the basic models, and the worlds in which they can operate properly. The results show, we believe, that PCT employs the only kind of model that can work in a realistic model of the world. Copyright 1999 Academic Press

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: 1400 El Camino Village Dr #1502, Houston, TX 77058, USA 2: 73 Ridge Pl. CR 510, Durango, CO 81301, USA

Publication date: 1999-06-01