Topic: modular representations

When encountering new situations, animals utilize previously acquired knowledge to solve the new task. To study how new task requirements are incorporated with prior knowledge we used a curricular learning paradigm: a complex task is divided into simpler tasks which are learned step-by-step with increasing complexity, adding a new task feature with every step.The Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) has been indicated to store representations of task features as well as being important for task schema retrieval and assimilation. However how new task feature representations and their associated beha