A learning rule that explains how rewards teach attention

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

Rewards teach visual selective attention

Visual selective attention is the brain function that modulates ongoing processing of retinal input in order for selected representations to gain privileged access to perceptual awareness and guide behavior. Enhanced analysis of currently relevant or otherwise salient information is often accompanied by suppressed processing of the less relevant or salient input. Recent findings indicate that r...

How Attention Can Create Synaptic Tags for the Learning of Working Memories in Sequential Tasks

Intelligence is our ability to learn appropriate responses to new stimuli and situations. Neurons in association cortex are thought to be essential for this ability. During learning these neurons become tuned to relevant features and start to represent them with persistent activity during memory delays. This learning process is not well understood. Here we develop a biologically plausible learn...

Reinforcement Learning of Linking and Tracing Contours in Recurrent Neural Networks

The processing of a visual stimulus can be subdivided into a number of stages. Upon stimulus presentation there is an early phase of feedforward processing where the visual information is propagated from lower to higher visual areas for the extraction of basic and complex stimulus features. This is followed by a later phase where horizontal connections within areas and feedback connections from...

A user-centered approach to computer supported teaching in classroom environments

How to use computers for teaching and learning has been research for decades now. The subject needs and gets attention from different research areas. New possibilities on how to use computers have to be explored from a computer science perspective. But of course also how to best teach taking advantage of the new media and its possibilities needs research. Both approaches are closely interwoven....