{"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"decision-making; phylogenetic refinement;\nheterarchical networks; hypothalamus; basal ganglia"}],"section":"Papers accepted as Talks, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"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","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30130/galley/19984/download/"}]}