A neuronal global workspace for human-like control of a computer game character

2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 350-357

  Fountas, Zafeirios ^a   Gamez, David ^b   Fidjeland, Andreas K ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; GLOBAL WORKSPACE; HIGH LEVEL CONTROL; HUMANOID ROBOT; NEURAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT; SPIKING NEURON; UNREAL TOURNAMENT;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISPLAY DEVICES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80054033718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2011.6032027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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