12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'00)
Identifying causal structure in a biological neural network
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 13-November 15
ISBN: 0-7695-0909-6
Abstract: A simulator for the Burgess, Recce, and O'Keefe (1994) BRO model of rodent navigation was built. Initial experiments did not reproduce the navigation performance reported by BRO. To determine the cause of the discrepancy, we reconstructed and reanalyzed their model. We were able to verify their main claim that if phase-modulated place cells act as radial basis functions, then they computationally have the ability to support memory-based navigation. However, our simulations were unable to reproduce their model of hippocampal cell place field acquisition.
Index Terms:
brain models; neural nets; neurophysiology; causal structure identification; biological neural network; BRO model; rodent navigation; phase-modulated place cells; radial basis functions; memory-based navigation; hippocampal cell place field acquisition
Citation:
A.S. Maida, "Identifying causal structure in a biological neural network," ictai, pp.0126, 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'00), 2000