Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: A reinforcement-learning perspective

Research on human and animal behavior has long emphasized its hierarchical structure — the divisibility of ongoing behavior into discrete tasks, which are comprised of subtask sequences, which in turn are built of simple actions. The hierarchical ...

Cognition . Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1. Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2008 Oct 15;113(3):262–280. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.011 Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: A reinforcement-learning perspective Matthew M Botvinick Matthew M Botvinick 1 Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University Find articles by Matthew M Botvinick 1 , Yael Niv Yael Niv 2 Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University Find articles by Yael Niv 2 , Andrew C Barto Andrew C Bart

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