{"id":1957,"date":"2025-10-09T08:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:30:11","slug":"short-letter-with-evidences-of-the-use-of-models-in-mammal-decision-making-relating-it-to-reinforcement-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Short letter with evidences of the use of models in mammal decision making, relating it to reinforcement learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ivo Jacobs, Tomas Persson, Peter G\u00e4rdenfors, <strong>Model-based animal cognition slips through the sequence bottleneck,<\/strong> Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 29, Issue 10,\n2025, Pages 872-873, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tics.2025.06.009\">10.1016\/j.tics.2025.06.009<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In a recent article in TiCS, Lind and Jon-And argued that the sequence memory of animals constitutes a cognitive bottleneck, the \u2018sequence bottleneck\u2019, and that mental simulations require faithful representation of sequential information. They therefore concluded that animals cannot perform mental simulations, and that behavioral and neurobiological studies suggesting otherwise are best interpreted as results of associative learning. Through examples of predictive maps, cognitive control, and active sleep, we illustrate the overwhelming evidence that mammals and birds make model-based simulations, which suggests the sequence bottleneck to be more limited in scope than proposed by Lind and Jon-And  [&#8230;]\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThere is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1364661325002359?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email\">response<\/a> to this paper.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivo Jacobs, Tomas Persson, Peter G\u00e4rdenfors, Model-based animal cognition slips through the sequence bottleneck, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 29, <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1957\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[205,15],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psycho-physiological-bases-of-engineering","tag-model-based-reinforcement-learning","tag-reinforcement-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}