Virtual neurorobotics (VNR) to accelerate development of plausible neuromorphic brain architectures

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2007, Pages

  Goodman, Philip H ^a   Buntha, Sermsak ^b   Zou, Quan ^a   Dascalu, Sergiu Mihai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Reno   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Epigenetic robotics; Human robot interface; Mesocircuit; Neocortex; Neurorobotic architecture; Reinforcement learning; Social robotics; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054750979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.12.001.2007     Document Type: Article

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