Presentation 2022-03-04
Observational learning with an entorhinal-hippocampal spiking neural network encoding the position of self and other
Katsuya Chiguchi, Katsumi Tateno, Kensuke Takada,
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Abstract(in English) This study proposes an entorhinal-hippocampal spiking neural network (SNN) encoding the position of self and other, and investigates an application to an observational T-maze task. On an observational T-maze task, the observer needs to represent the self-position and the position of the other in the brain. In the hippocampus, there are place cells that encode self-location in the environment, and some of them are joint place cells that encode the location of others as well. However, how joint place cells are formed is not yet understood. In the present study, we assume that object vector cells in entorhinal cortex encodes the distance and direction to others, and propose the entorhinal-hippocampal SNN that forms joint place cells by projections from place cells and object vector cells. Furthermore, the proposed SNN learns to move in the opposite direction of its companion at a T-junction based on the neural activity of joint place cells and rewarded signals. As a result, we confirmed that the proposed SNN can perform the observational T-maze task successfully through repeated trials.
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Keyword(in English) Hippocampus / Observational learning / Joint place cell / Spiking neural network
Paper # NC2021-72
Date of Issue 2022-02-23 (NC)

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Committee MBE / NC
Conference Date 2022/3/2(3days)
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Chair Ryuhei Okuno(Setsunan Univ.) / Rieko Osu(Waseda Univ.)
Vice Chair Junichi Hori(Niigata Univ.) / Hiroshi Yamakawa(Univ of Tokyo)
Secretary Junichi Hori(Osaka Electro-Communication Univ) / Hiroshi Yamakawa(ATR)
Assistant Jun Akazawa(Meiji Univ. of Integrative Medicine) / Emi Yuda(Tohoku Univ) / Nobuhiko Wagatsuma(Toho Univ.) / Tomoki Kurikawa(KMU)

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Registration To Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics / Technical Committee on Neurocomputing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Observational learning with an entorhinal-hippocampal spiking neural network encoding the position of self and other
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Keyword(1) Hippocampus
Keyword(2) Observational learning
Keyword(3) Joint place cell
Keyword(4) Spiking neural network
1st Author's Name Katsuya Chiguchi
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
2nd Author's Name Katsumi Tateno
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
3rd Author's Name Kensuke Takada
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
Date 2022-03-04
Paper # NC2021-72
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) NC-390
Page pp.pp.138-138(NC),
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Date of Issue 2022-02-23 (NC)