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2010
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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2010
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Why and How Hippocampal Transition Cells Can Be Used in Reinforcement Learning
Julien Hirel, Philippe Gaussier, Mathias Quoy, Jea...
SAB
2010
Springer
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Learning Robot-Environment Interaction Using Echo State Networks
Learning robot-environment interaction with echo state networks (ESNs) is presented in this paper. ESNs are asked to bootstrap a robot’s control policy from human teacher’s dem...
Mohamed Oubbati, Bahram Kord, Günther Palm