Robot Planning Using Agents Modeled after the Brain's Networks

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Crucial Papers:

Houk, JC.  Agents of the Mind.  (2004) 9th IEEE International Conference of Engineering of Complex Computer Systems: Florence, Italy, 14-16 April, 2004

 


Basic Background:

Glimcher PW. (2002) Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Choosing a Biological Science of Choice.  Neuron. 36: 323-332.

Houk JC., Barto AG, Fagg AH (2002), Fractional Power Damping Model of Joint Motion, Progress in Motor Control (M. Latash, Ed.)

Houk JC, Mugnaini E. (2002) Chapter 32: Cerebellum. In Fundamental Neuroscience, 2E. Squire et al. Academic Press.

Doya, K, Kimura H, et al. (2000). Motor Control: Neural Models and System Theory.

 


Distributed Processing Modules and Cortical-subcortical Loops:

Middleton FA, Strick PL. (2000) Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Loops: Motor and Cognitive Circuits.  Brain Research Reviews. 31: 236-250.

Doya, K. (2000). Complementary roles of basal ganglia and cerebellum in learning and motor control. Curr Opin Neurobiol 10(6): 732-9.

Beiser DG, Houk JC. (1998) Model of cortical-basal ganglionic processing: Encoding the serial order of sensory events. Journal of Neurophysiology. 79: 3168-3188.

Houk JC, Wise SP. (1995) Distributed modular architectures linking basal ganglia, cerebellum, and cerebral cortex: Their role in planning and controlling action. Cerebral Cortex. 5: 95-110.

Houk JC, Keifer J, Barto AG. (1993) Distributed motor commands in the limb premotor network. Trends in Neurosci . 16: 27-33.
 

 


Voluntary Motor Control:

Novak KE., Miller LE, Houk JC. (2003) Features of motor performance that drive adaptation in rapid hand movements. Experimental Brain Research 148: 388-400

Novak KE., Miller LE, Houk JC. (2002) The use of overlapping submovements in the control of rapid hand movements. Experimental Brain Research. 144: 351-346.

Miller LE, Holdefer RN, Houk JC. (2002) The role of the cerebellum in regulating voluntary limb movement commands. Archives Italiennes Biologie

Novak KE, Miller LE, Houk JC (2000) Kinematic properties of rapid hand movements in a knob turning task. Experimental Brain Research. 132: 419-433.

Barto AG, Fagg AH, Sitkoff N, Houk JC. (1999) A cerebellar model of timing and prediction in the control of reaching. Neural Computation 11: 565-594.

Dagher A, Owen AM, Boecker H, Brooks DJ. (1999) Mapping the network for planning: a correlational PET activation study with the Town of London task.  Brain 122: 1973-1987.

Fagg AH, Barto AG, Houk JC. (1999) Learning to reach using crude corrective feedback.

Shima K, Tanji J. (1998) Role for Cingulate Motor Area Cells in Voluntary Movement Selection Based on Reward.  Science. 282: 1335-1338

 


Special Properties of the Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia:

Fraser D, Park S, Clark G, Yohanna D, Houk JC. (2004)  Spatial serial order processing in schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research. In press

Gruber AJ, Solla SA, Surmeier DJ, Houk JC. (2003) Modulation of striatal single units by expected reward: a spiny neuron model displaying dopamine-induced bistability.  J Neurophysiol 90: 1095-1114.

Genet S, Delord B. (2002). A biophysical model of nonlinear dynamics underlying plateau potentials and calcium spikes in Purkinje cell dendrites.  J Neurophysiol.  88: 2430-2444.

Lawrence AD (2000). Error correction and the basal ganglia: similar computations for action, cognition and emotion?  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 4: 365-367

Doya, K. (1999). What are the computations of the cerebellum, the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex? Neural Netw 12(7-8): 961-974.

Hua SE, Houk JC. (1997) Cerebellar guidance of premotor network development and sensorimotor learning. Learning & Memory. 4: 63-76.

Kettner RE, Mahamud S, Leung H-C, Sitkoff N, Houk JC, Peterson BW, Barto AG. (1997) Prediction of complex two-dimensional trajectories by a cerebellar model of smooth pursuit eye movement. Journal of Neurophysiology. 77: 2115-2130.

Houk JC and Alford S. (1996) Computational significance of the cellular mechanisms for synaptic plasticity in Purkinje cells. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19: 457-461.

Houk JC, Adams JL, Barto AG. (1995) A Model of How the Basal Ganglia Generate and Use Neural Signals that Predict Reinforcement. In Models of Information Processing in the Basal Ganglia, JC Houk, JL Davis, DG Beiser, eds. The MIT Press, 249-270.

Yuen G, Hockberger P, Houk JC. (1995) Bistability in cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites modeled with high-threshold calcium and delayed-rectifier potassium channels. Biological Cybernetics. 73: 375-388

 


Network Theory:

Strogatz SH. (2001). Exploring complex networks. Nature. 410: 268-276.

Sporns, O., G. Tononi, et al. (2000). Theoretical neuroanatomy: relating anatomical and functional connectivity in graphs and cortical connection matrices. Cereb Cortex 10(2): 127-41.

 


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