The acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles under active inference

Axel Constant; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Beren Millidge; Felipe Criado-Boado; Luis M. Martinez; Johannes Müeller; Andy Clark

doi:10.3389/fnbot.2021.729665

The acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles under active inference

Axel Constant^*, Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz, Beren Millidge, Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M. Martinez, Johannes Müeller, Andy Clark

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This paper presents an active inference based simulation study of visual foraging. The goal of the simulation is to show the effect of the acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles on cognitive task performance, under active inference. We show how cultural artefacts like antique vase decorations drive cognitive functions such as perception, action and learning, as well as task performance in a simple visual discrimination task. We thus describe a new active inference based research pipeline that future work may employ to inquire on deep guiding principles determining the manner in which material culture drives human thought, by building and rebuilding our patterns of attention.

Original language	English
Article number	729665
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2021.729665
Publication status	Published - 5 Oct 2021

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active inference
archaeology
culture
eye tracking
perception
simulation

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