@misc{cogprints4950, editor = {Stefan Schaal and Auke Ijspeert and Aude Billard and Sethu Vijayakumar and John Hallam and Jean-Arcady Meyer}, title = {May We Have Your Attention: Analysis of a Selective Attention Task}, author = {Eldan Goldenberg and Jacob R Garcowski and Randall D Beer}, publisher = {MIT Press (Bradford Books)}, year = {2004}, pages = {49--56}, url = {http://cogprints.org/4950/}, abstract = {In this paper we present a deeper analysis than has previously been carried out of a selective attention problem, and the evolution of continuous-time recurrent neural networks to solve it. We show that the task has a rich structure, and agents must solve a variety of subproblems to perform well. We consider the relationship between the complexity of an agent and the ease with which it can evolve behavior that generalizes well across subproblems, and demonstrate a shaping protocol that improves generalization.} }