An action planning model using short-term and long-term memory information during learning of sequential procedures

To make an action plan, it is thought that the brain uses memory systems. Thus, we propose an action plan model, which deals with the physiological experiments to push buttons in the correct order. In the model, there are two independent action-planning systems of long-term memory and working memory. When the stimulus set is input, they propose action plans, and the selection is decided in a competitive way via the value of estimation parameters. As a result, the model reproduces similar behaviors to the biological data. Especially our model make errors at first but it gradually learns correct responses by trial and error utilizing the memory systems as the monkey did in the physiological experiment. The results suggest that SMA and pre-SMA may have close relationships to the entries to long-term memory and working memory systems in the brain.