Brain-Inspired Information Technology

Chapter 1 Mission Capable Autonomous Control Systems in the Oceans, in the Air and in Space

Chapter 2 Three Paths to Relevance

Chapter 3 Brain-Like Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Multimodal Information Processing

Chapter 4 Human-Like Local Navigation System Inspired by a Hippocampal Memory Mechanism

Chapter 5 Brain-Inspired Emergence of Behaviors Based on Values and Curiosity in Mobile Robots

Chapter 6 Emergence of Behaviors by Reinforcement Learning Based on the Desire for Existence

Chapter 7 Classification and Novelty Detection of Omni-view Images Taken from a Mobile Robot

Chapter 8 Curiosity and Boredom Based on Prediction Error as Novel Internal Rewards

Chapter 9 Skill Transfer of a Mobile Robot Obtained by Reinforcement Learning to a Different Mobile Robot

Chapter 10 Effect of Fitness Functions on the Performance of Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization

Chapter 11 Constraint Satisfaction with Neural Network for Trajectory Planning

Chapter 12 Acquisition and Extinction of Avoidance Response by Social Interaction in Rats

Chapter 13 Positive and Negative Effects of Environmental Chemicals on Brain Function in Rodents

Chapter 14 Category Recognition in the Monkey Orbitofrontal Cortex

Chapter 15 An Adaptive Controller System Using mnSOM (2nd Report: Implementation into an Autonomous Underwater Robot)

Chapter 16 An Environment Recognition System Using SOM

Chapter 17 A Novel Embedded Computer Based Autonomous Robot for Sewer Pipe Inspection

Chapter 18 The Angular Threshold for Frog Collision Avoidance Behavior Changes Depending on Not Only the Stimulus Location But Also the Behavioral Strategy

Chapter 19 Spike-Timing-Dependent LTP/LTD Caused by Uncorrelated Signals through Medial and Lateral Perforant Pathways in the Dentate Granule Cell

Chapter 20 Spatiotemporal Synchronization of Neuronal Activity in a Hippocampal CA3 Network Model Including the O-LM Cell

Chapter 21 The Regulation of Glutamate-Induced Astrocytic [Ca 2 +  ]i Responses by the Desensitization of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor

Chapter 22 Functional Properties of Resonate-and-Fire Neuron Circuits for Bio-Inspired Chemical Sensor Array

Chapter 23 A Robot Vision System Using a Silicon Retina

Chapter 24 Real-Time Human-Machine Interaction System Based on Face Authentication and Arm Posture Recognition

Chapter 25 Shadow Elimination Mimicking the Human Visual System

Chapter 26 An FPGA-Based Collision Warning System Using Moving-Object Detection Inspired by Neuronal Propagation in the Hippocampus

Chapter 27 A Chemical Sensor Array Inspired by Mouse Taste Buds

Chapter 28 Emotional Behavior and Expression Based on a Neural Network Model of Amygdala

Chapter 29 Effective and Adaptive Learning Based on Diversive/Specific Curiosity