Learning touch preferences with a tactile robot using dopamine modulated STDP in a model of insular cortex

• Published in: Frontiers in neurorobotics Vol. 9; p. 6
• Main Authors: Chou, Ting-Shuo, Bucci, Liam D., Krichmar, Jeffrey L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 22.07.2015; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Conditioned stimulus; Cortex (insular); Dopamine; Dopamine receptors; Experiments; Firing pattern; insular cortex; Learning; Neostriatum; Neural networks; Neuroplasticity; neurorobotics; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Prefrontal cortex; Reinforcement; reinforcement learning; Robotics; Robots; Somatosensory Cortex; Somatosensory system; STDP; tactile sensing; Tactile stimuli; Trends; United States > US; California; STDP; insular cortex; somatosensory cortex; tactile robot; dopamine; reinforcement learning
• ISSN: 1662-5218; 1662-5218
• DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2015.00006

Neurorobots enable researchers to study how behaviors are produced by neural mechanisms in an uncertain, noisy, real-world environment. To investigate how the somatosensory system processes noisy, real-world touch inputs, we introduce a neurorobot called CARL-SJR, which has a full-body tactile senso...