Erasing the homunculus as an ongoing mission: A reply to the commentaries

Catégorie

Journal Article

Auteurs

Schmidt, J. R., Liefooghe, B., De Houwer, J.

Année

2020

Titre

Erasing the homunculus as an ongoing mission: A reply to the commentaries

Journal / Livre / Conférence

Journal of Cognition

Résumé

In our recent article (Schmidt, Liefooghe, & De Houwer, in press), we presented an adaptation of the Parallel Episodic Processing (PEP) model for simulating instruction following and task-switching behaviour. In this paper, we respond to five commentaries on our article: Monsell & McLaren (in press), Koch & Lavric (in press), Meiran (in press), Longman (in press), and Pfeuffer (in press). The commentaries discuss potential future modelling goals, deeper reflections on cognitive control, and some potential challenges for our theoretical perspective and associated model. We focus primarily on the latter. In particular, we clarify that we (a) acknowledge the role of cognitive control in task switching, and (b) are arguing that certain task-switching effects do not serve as a good measure of said cognitive control. We also discuss some ambiguities in terminological uses (e.g., the meaning of “task-set reconfiguration”), along with some future experimental and modelling research directions.

Issue

3

Pages

Article 28

Mots-clés

computational modelling, neural networks, episodic memory, binding, switch costs, feature integration, task-rule congruency, instruction implementation, goals

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