Attention lobe

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The Attention lobe has a size of 40 neurons.

This lobe receives input signals from the the Concept lobe, in which signals from the different sense lobes and the Verb lobe have previously been combined. The different inputs of one neuron are summed up and the neuron with the highest activity is selected to actually specify the object of attention of the creature. In Creatures 1 and Creatures 2 this behaviour is archieved by the "Winner takes all (WTA)" flag in this Lobe's gene. In Creatures 3 this is done by special SV Rules.

Possible meanings might include:

• food
• norn
• button

The output of the neurons in this lobe is directly used by the Creatures engine to set the creatures's atention to a specific object.

[edit] See also

• Brain
• Lobe
• Biochemistry