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Can robots without Hebbian plasticity make good models of adaptive behaviour?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Jørn Hokland  and
Beatrix Vereijken
Jørn Hokland
Affiliation:
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Faculty of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, NorwayJorn.Hokland@idi.ntnu.no www.idi.ntnu.no/~hokland/
Beatrix Vereijken
Affiliation:
Human Movement Science Section, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, NorwayBeatrix.Vereijken@svt.ntnu.no www.svt.ntnu.no/psy/Beatrix.Vereijken/
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Abstract

No. Animals' primary problem is the shaping of movements, guided by and adapting to sensory signals. This requires a narrower class of biorobotic models than that spanned by Webb's dimensions and examples. We claim that all model variables and mechanisms must have real counterparts, input vectors must model known sensor fields, internal state vectors and transformations must model neurophysiological processes, and output vectors must model coordinated muscle signals.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1060 - 1062
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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