@misc{cogprints3350, volume = {101}, editor = {Christopher G. Prince and Luc Berthouze and Hideki Kozima and Daniel Bullock and Georgi Stojanov and Christian Balkenius}, title = {A biologically inspired computational model of the Block Copying Task}, author = {Tian Lan and Michael Arnold and Terrence Sejnowski and Marwan Jabri}, publisher = {Lund University Cognitive Studies}, year = {2003}, pages = {171--172}, keywords = {block copying task, basal ganglia model, actor-critic architecture, temporal difference learning}, url = {http://cogprints.org/3350/}, abstract = {We present in this paper a biologically inspired model of the Basal Ganglia which deals with Block Copying as a sequence learning task. By breaking a relatively complex task into simpler operations with well-defined skills, an approach which is termed as a skill-based machine design is used in the device of computational models to complete such tasks. Basal Ganglia are critically involved in sensorimotor control. From the learning aspects, Actor-Critic architectures have been proposed to model the Basal Ganglia and Temporal difference has been proposed as a learning algorithm. The model is implemented and simulation results are presented to show the capability of our model to successfully complete the task.} }