Behavior

Studies from RIKEN further understanding of behavior

Published in Lab Business Week, April 19th, 2009

"Both animals and humans use meta-rules in their daily life, in order to adapt their behavioral strategies to changing environmental situations. Typically, the term meta-rule encompasses those rules that are applied to rules themselves," investigators in Wako, Japan report.

"In cognitive science, conventional approaches for designing meta-rules follow human hardwired architectures. In contrast to previous approaches, this study employs evolutionary processes to explore neuronal mechanisms accounting for meta-level rule switching. In particular, we performed a series of experiments with a simulated robot that has to learn to switch between different behavioral rules in...

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Source: Lab Business Week (2009-04-19)

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