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Everything about Action selection
Computing concept
Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational cognitive science, "the action selection problem" is typically associated with intelligent agents and animats—artificial systems that exhibit complex behavior in an agent environment. The term is also sometimes used in ethology or animal behavior. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Action selectionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Sequential sampling from memory underlies action selection during abstract decision-makingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Pickwick PapersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Natural selection in action during speciationCited 448 times
- Go sideways: NeuromelaninA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Neural bindingA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Natural selection in action during speciation
A spike-timing mechanism for action selection
Willed action and attention to the selection of action
Action Selection and Action Value in Frontal-Striatal Circuits
A competitive model for striatal action selection
Dynamic Nigrostriatal Dopamine Biases Action Selection
SMART Frame Selection for Action Recognition
Natural selection for least action
🆕 Influential since 2022
Sequential sampling from memory underlies action selection during abstract decision-making
Neural Control of Action Selection Among Innate Behaviors
Collaborative and Multilevel Feature Selection Network for Action Recognition
Action selection in early stages of psychosis: an active inference approach
Action Selection and Motor Decision Making: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
📚 Books worth reading
The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens · 1800
Powder and PatchGeorgette Heyer · 1923
The Devil's HeartCathy Maxwell · 2013
The vanished birdsSimon Jimenez · 2020- 📕Jobs, dollars, and EEORichard A. Fear, James F. Ross · 1982
Body power, power playIhor Holubizky, Claudia Luerson · 2002
The bloodboundErin Lindsey · 2014
Participation, learning, and identityWolff-Michael Roth · 2005
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