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affordance competition hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Neuroscience

proposal that the brain specifies several possible actions in parallel and selects among them through biased competition, rather than deciding before planning.

In neuroscience, affordance competition hypothesis refers to proposal that the brain specifies several possible actions in parallel and selects among them through biased competition, rather than deciding before planning. This meaning comes from Cisek (2007) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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References

Cisek, P. (2007). Cortical mechanisms of action selection: the affordance competition hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362(1485), 1585-1599. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2054

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