Corrigendum: Attention in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Machine Learning

Grace W. Lindsay

Abstract: In the original article, there was an error. A portion of the text was repeated unnecessarily. Specifically, the sentences Interestingly, infants may learn from attending to what adults around them attend to and the coordination of attention more broadly across agents may be very helpful in a social species. Therefore, the attention of others should influence how attention is guided. Attempts to coordinate joint attention will need to be integrated into attention systems (Kaplan and Hafner, 2006;Klein et al., 2009). were accidentally placed at the start of the below paragraph after already appearing at the end of the paragraph before.A correction has been made to Ideas for Future Interaction Between Artificial and Biological Attention, How to Deploy Attention, 4:Activities would likely need to flexibly decide which of several possible goals should be achieved at any time and therefore where attention should be placed. This problem clearly interacts closely with issues around reinforcement learning-particularly hierarchical reinforcement learning which involves the choosing of subtasks-as such decisions must be based on expected positive or negative outcomes. Indeed, there is a close relationship between attention and reward as previouslyrewarded stimuli attract attention even in contexts where they no longer provide reward (Camara et al., 2013). A better understanding of how humans choose which tasks to engage in and when should allow human behavior to inform the design of...