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    "pk": 30130,
    "title": "A Phylogenetic Perspective on\nDistributed Decision-Making Mechanisms",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This paper challenges a common assumption about decision-\nmaking mechanisms in humans: decision-making is a\ndistinctively high-level cognitive activity implemented by\nmechanisms concentrated in the higher-level areas of the\ncortex. We argue instead that human behavior is controlled by\na multiplicity of highly distributed, heterarchically organized\ndecision-making mechanisms. We frame it in terms of control\nmechanisms that procure and evaluate information to select\nactivities of controlled mechanisms and adopt a phylogenetic\nperspective, showing how decision-making is realized in\ncontrol mechanisms in a variety of species. We end by\ndiscussing this picture's implication for high-level cognitive\ndecision-making.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "decision-making; phylogenetic refinement;\nheterarchical networks; hypothalamus; basal ganglia"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers accepted as Talks, appearing in proceedings only",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1m1572vx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Linus",
            "middle_name": "Ta-Lun",
            "last_name": "Huang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "William",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bechtel",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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