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SAB
2010
Springer
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Tactile Discrimination Using Template Classifiers: Towards a Model of Feature Extraction in Mammalian Vibrissal Systems
Abstract. Rats and other whiskered mammals are capable of making sophisticated sensory discriminations using tactile signals from their facial whiskers (vibrissae). As part of a pr...
Mathew H. Evans, Charles W. Fox, Martin J. Pearson...
SAB
2010
Springer
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A Supramodal Vibrissa Tactile and Auditory Model for Texture Recognition
Abstract. Audition and touch endow spectral processing abilities allowing texture recognition and discrimination. Rat whiskers sensorisystem exhibits, as the cochlea, resonance pro...
Mathieu Bernard, Steve N'Guyen, Patrick Pirim, Agn...
SAB
2010
Springer
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Internal Models in the Cerebellum: A Coupling Scheme for Online and Offline Learning in Procedural Tasks
The cerebellum plays a major role in motor control. It is thought to mediate the acquisition of forward and inverse internal models of the bodyenvironment interaction [1]. In this ...
Jean-Baptiste Passot, Niceto Luque, Angelo Arleo
SAB
2010
Springer
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Autonomous Development of Social Referencing Skills
Abstract. In this work, we are interested in understanding how emotional interactions with a social partner can bootstrap increasingly complex behaviors such as social referencing....
Sofiane Boucenna, Philippe Gaussier, Laurence Hafe...
SAB
2010
Springer
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TeXDYNA: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs
Reinforcement learning is one of the main adaptive mechanisms that is both well documented in animal behaviour and giving rise to computational studies in animats and robots. In th...
Olga Kozlova, Olivier Sigaud, Christophe Meyer
SAB
2010
Springer
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Minimal Model of Strategy Switching in the Plus-Maze Navigation Task
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been implicated in the ability to switch behavioral strategies in response to changes in reward contingencies. A recent experimental study has shown tha...
Denis Sheynikhovich, Laurent Dollé, Ricardo...
SAB
2010
Springer
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A Study of Adaptive Locomotive Behaviors of a Biped Robot: Patterns Generation and Classification
Abstract. Neurobiological studies showed the important role of Centeral Pattern Generators for spinal cord in the control and sensory feedback of animals' locomotion. In this ...
John Nassour, Patrick Henaff, Fathi Ben Ouezdou, G...
IPCO
2010
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An Effective Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Convex Quadratic Integer Programming
We present a branch-and-bound algorithm for minimizing a convex quadratic objective function over integer variables subject to convex constraints. In a given node of the enumerati...
Christoph Buchheim, Alberto Caprara, Andrea Lodi
GECCO
2010
Springer
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Black-box optimization benchmarking the IPOP-CMA-ES on the noiseless testbed: comparison to the BIPOP-CMA-ES
We benchmark the Covariance Matrix Adaptation-Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm with an Increasing POPulation size (IPOP) restart policy on the BBOB noiseless testbed. The IPO...
Raymond Ros