| Project/Area Number |
26630089
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Keywords | 脳 / 神経細胞 / リカレントネットワーク / 培養 / ロボット / 微小電極アレイ / 培養神経回路 / 光刺激 / フィードバック |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the dissociate culture, neurons seeded onto a petri dish form a network in a self-organizing manner, which generates chaotic activity patterns spontaneously. In this study, we demonstrated that a coherent output could be extracted from the chaotic activity patterns with appropriate feedback stimulation based on the network activity. A moving robot controlled with such a coherent output exhibited a goal-directed behavior, such as a maze-solving task. Our experiments suggest that biological intelligence emerges from a mechanism that extracts coherent patterns from chaotic patterns.
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