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Happy Friday everyone! We hope you’re all doing well and wish you all good luck on your upcoming midterms!
This is a reminder to RSVP for our upcoming meeting.
Join us next Tuesday (2/2) at 7:00pm for a presentation by guest speaker Dr. Krichmar! Dr. Krishmar runs the Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory, which studies the development of spike judgment neurorobots that respond to different types of touches. His research focuses on how hedonic touch affects neural areas, which in turn, affects how humans/animals respond to reward.
If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Krichmar’s research, here are some interesting papers:
- “A neural model of schemas and memory encoding” (2020)
- This paper is based on the idea of how we can use our experiences to get information encoded into their respective schemas. This biological concept was modeled and then applied to a neutral network, to achieve the goal of rapid encoding within their respective schemas. The task was to learn context from a spatial memory task, indexing and representation were modeled after the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. Through this paper, a little more information was found about artificial neural networks and how to create context-dependent memories.
- “Neuromodulated Patience for Robot and Self-Driving Vehicle Navigation” (2020)
- In real-world environments, a robot or self-driving vehicle can face many uncertainties, from weather conditions to unforeseen obstacles or uncertain goals. In order to add context and flexibility to path planning, the rodent model of patience (added levels of serotonin which regulates impulsiveness in an animal’s behavior) was applied to a ground robot navigating our very own Aldrich Park. Results showed that higher levels of neuromodulated patience allowed the robot to increase search time, reached more waypoints, and used less energy.
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