Task 8 - Trying to make it work

Question 1

Cisek’s Affordance Competition Model

Answer 1

• The brain represents multiple possible actions (affordances) in parallel.
• These actions compete and internal goals, context, and sensory input bias the competition.
• The winning action gets selected and executed.
• Selection and planning happen simultaneously, not in sequence.
• Emphasizes dynamic, real-time decision-making during behavior

Question 2

Cisek’s two processing pathways

Answer 2

Occipito-temporal ventral stream: cells sensitive to identity of objects (what)
Occipito-parietal dorsal stream: cells sensitive to spatial information (where)