Connecting brains to robots: An artificial body for studying the computational properties of neural tissues

Artificial Life

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 307-324

  Reger, Bernard D ^a   Fleming, Karen M ^a   Sanguineti, Vittorio ^b   Alford, Simon ^c   Mussa Ivaldi, Ferdinando A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid system; Modeling; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LAMPREY; LEARNING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETICULAR FORMATION; ROBOTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; LAMPREYS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETICULAR FORMATION; ROBOTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 0034281273     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454600300103656     Document Type: Article

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