TY - GEN
T1 - Developmental neural heterogeneity through coarse-coding regulation
AU - Thangavelautham, Jekanthan
AU - D'Eleuterio, Gabriele M.T.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - A coarse-coding regulatory model that facilitates neural heterogeneity through a morphogenetic process is presented. The model demonstrates cellular and tissue extensibility through ontogeny, resulting in the emergence of neural heterogeneity, use of gated memory and multistate functionality in a Artificial Neural Tissue framework. In each neuron, multiple networks of proteins compete and cooperate for representation through a coarse-coding regulatory scheme. Intracellular competition and cooperation is found to better facilitate evolutionary adaptability and result in simpler solutions than does the use of homogeneous binary neurons. The emergent use of gated memory functions within this cell model is found to be more effective than recurrent architectures for memory-dependent variants of the unlabeled sign-following robotic task.
AB - A coarse-coding regulatory model that facilitates neural heterogeneity through a morphogenetic process is presented. The model demonstrates cellular and tissue extensibility through ontogeny, resulting in the emergence of neural heterogeneity, use of gated memory and multistate functionality in a Artificial Neural Tissue framework. In each neuron, multiple networks of proteins compete and cooperate for representation through a coarse-coding regulatory scheme. Intracellular competition and cooperation is found to better facilitate evolutionary adaptability and result in simpler solutions than does the use of homogeneous binary neurons. The emergent use of gated memory functions within this cell model is found to be more effective than recurrent architectures for memory-dependent variants of the unlabeled sign-following robotic task.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_18
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38049072086
SN - 9783540749127
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 172
EP - 182
BT - Advances in Artificial Life - 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th European Conference on Advance in Artificial Life, ECAL 2007
Y2 - 10 September 2007 through 14 September 2007
ER -