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Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience
Valentino Braitenberg reported his seminal thought experiment in 1984 using reactive automatons or vehicles with relatively simple sensorimotor connections as models for seemingly complex cognitive processes in biological brains. Braitenberg's work, meant as a metaphor for biological life encom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33042967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.565963 |
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author | Shaikh, Danish Rañó, Ignacio |
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description | Valentino Braitenberg reported his seminal thought experiment in 1984 using reactive automatons or vehicles with relatively simple sensorimotor connections as models for seemingly complex cognitive processes in biological brains. Braitenberg's work, meant as a metaphor for biological life encompassed a deep knowledge of and served as an analogy for the multitude of neural processes and pathways that underlie animal behavior, suggesting that seemingly complex behavior may arise from relatively simple designs. Braitenberg vehicles have been adopted in robotics and artificial life research for sensor-driven navigation behaviors in robots, such as localizing sound and chemical sources, orienting toward or away from current flow under water etc. The neuroscience community has benefitted from applying Braitenberg's bottom-up approach toward understanding analogous neural mechanisms underpinning his models of animal behavior. We present a summary of the latest studies of Braitenberg vehicles for bio-inspired navigation and relate the results to experimental findings on the neural basis of navigation behavior in animals. Based on these studies, we motivate the important role of Braitenberg vehicles as computational tools to inform research in behavioral neuroscience. |
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spelling | pubmed-75250162020-10-09 Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience Shaikh, Danish Rañó, Ignacio Front Bioeng Biotechnol Bioengineering and Biotechnology Valentino Braitenberg reported his seminal thought experiment in 1984 using reactive automatons or vehicles with relatively simple sensorimotor connections as models for seemingly complex cognitive processes in biological brains. Braitenberg's work, meant as a metaphor for biological life encompassed a deep knowledge of and served as an analogy for the multitude of neural processes and pathways that underlie animal behavior, suggesting that seemingly complex behavior may arise from relatively simple designs. Braitenberg vehicles have been adopted in robotics and artificial life research for sensor-driven navigation behaviors in robots, such as localizing sound and chemical sources, orienting toward or away from current flow under water etc. The neuroscience community has benefitted from applying Braitenberg's bottom-up approach toward understanding analogous neural mechanisms underpinning his models of animal behavior. We present a summary of the latest studies of Braitenberg vehicles for bio-inspired navigation and relate the results to experimental findings on the neural basis of navigation behavior in animals. Based on these studies, we motivate the important role of Braitenberg vehicles as computational tools to inform research in behavioral neuroscience. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7525016/ /pubmed/33042967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.565963 Text en Copyright © 2020 Shaikh and Rañó. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Bioengineering and Biotechnology Shaikh, Danish Rañó, Ignacio Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience |
title | Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience |
title_full | Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience |
title_fullStr | Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience |
title_full_unstemmed | Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience |
title_short | Braitenberg Vehicles as Computational Tools for Research in Neuroscience |
title_sort | braitenberg vehicles as computational tools for research in neuroscience |
topic | Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33042967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.565963 |
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