Studies on Homeo-dynamics with Embodied cultured and Artificial Neural Circuits

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24300080
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: IKEGAMI Takashi 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (10211715)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKAHASHI Hirokazu 東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 講師 (90361518)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 自律ロボット / 培養神経回路 / 学習 / 可塑性 / スパイクニューロン / シミュレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We designed a feedback loop system between a robot and a neural circuit, where a (either cultured or artificial) neural circuit controls the robot's behavior and the information from the environment will be feedback onto the neural circuit. By studying this iteration of stimulus and behavior of the feedback loop system, i) we characterized the development of cultured neural circuit by the transfer entropy, and we discovered that ii) a cultured neural circuit can create a structure by this feedback looping and iii) this pattern obeys a new principle of "learning by avoiding stimulus" at the network level.

Free Research Field

複雑系の科学