Brain-Inspired Information Technology

Mission Capable Autonomous Control Systems in the Oceans, in the Air and in Space.- Three Paths to Relevance.- Brain-Like Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Multimodal Information Processing.- Human-Like Local Navigation System Inspired by a Hippocampal Memory Mechanism.- Brain-Inspired Emergence of Behaviors Based on Values and Curiosity in Mobile Robots.- Emergence of Behaviors by Reinforcement Learning Based on the Desire for Existence.- Classification and Novelty Detection of Omni-view Images Taken from a Mobile Robot.- Curiosity and Boredom Based on Prediction Error as Novel Internal Rewards.- Skill Transfer of a Mobile Robot Obtained by Reinforcement Learning to a Different Mobile Robot.- Effect of Fitness Functions on the Performance of Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization.- Constraint Satisfaction with Neural Network for Trajectory Planning.- Acquisition and Extinction of Avoidance Response by Social Interaction in Rats.- Positive and Negative Effects of Environmental Chemicals on Brain Function in Rodents.- Category Recognition in the Monkey Orbitofrontal Cortex.- An Adaptive Controller System Using mnSOM (2nd Report: Implementation into an Autonomous Underwater Robot).- An Environment Recognition System Using SOM.- A Novel Embedded Computer Based Autonomous Robot for Sewer Pipe Inspection.- The Angular Threshold for Frog Collision Avoidance Behavior Changes Depending on Not Only the Stimulus Location But Also the Behavioral Strategy.- Spike-Timing-Dependent LTP/LTD Caused by Uncorrelated Signals through Medial and Lateral Perforant Pathways in the Dentate Granule Cell.- Spatiotemporal Synchronization of Neuronal Activity in a Hippocampal CA3 Network Model Including the O-LM Cell.- The Regulation of Glutamate-Induced Astrocytic [Ca2?+?]i Responses bythe Desensitization of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor.- Functional Properties of Resonate-and-Fire Neuron Circuits for Bio-Inspired Chemical Sensor Array.- A Robot Vision System Using a Silicon Retina.-