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| M A ArbibSummaryAffiliation: University of Southern California Country: USA Publications
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Emotions: from brain to robotMichael A Arbib
Computer Science, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:554-61. 2004..We therefore abstract from biology a functional characterization of emotion that does not depend on physical substrate or evolutionary history, and is broad enough to encompass the possible emotions of robots...- Rana computatrix to human language: towards a computational neuroethology of language evolutionMichael A Arbib
Department of Computer Science, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Philos Transact A Math Phys Eng Sci 361:2345-79. 2003..The model of human-brain mechanisms is based on the mirror-system hypothesis of the evolution of the language-ready brain, which sees the human Broca's area as an evolved extension of the mirror system for grasping... - Autonomous robots based on inspiration from biology: the relation to neuroinformaticsMichael A Arbib
Computer Science, Neuroscience, and the USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
Neuroinformatics 3:281-6. 2005 - Co-evolution of human consciousness and languageM A Arbib
Computer Science Department and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90089 2520, USA http www hbp usc edu
Ann N Y Acad Sci 929:195-220. 2001.... - From monkey-like action recognition to human language: an evolutionary framework for neurolinguisticsMichael A Arbib
Computer Science Department, Neuroscience Program, and USC Brain Project, University of Southem Califomia, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Behav Brain Sci 28:105-24; discussion 125-67. 2005.... - Précis of Neural organization: structure, function, and dynamicsM A Arbib
USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Behav Brain Sci 23:513-33; discussion 533-71. 2000..We conclude with the claim that language and other cognitive processes can be fruitfully studied within the framework of neural organization that the authors have charted with John Szentágothai... - Synthetic brain imaging: grasping, mirror neurons and imitationM A Arbib
USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Neural Netw 13:975-97. 2000.... - A sentence is to speech as what is to action?Michael A Arbib
Computer Science Department, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Cortex 42:507-14. 2006.... 
From grasp to language: embodied concepts and the challenge of abstractionMichael A Arbib
Computer Science, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
J Physiol Paris 102:4-20. 2008..A., 1981. Perceptual structures and distributed motor control. In: Brooks, V.B. (Ed.), Handbook of Physiology--The Nervous System II. Motor Control. American Physiological Society, pp. 1449-1480]...
From visual affordances in monkey parietal cortex to hippocampo-parietal interactions underlying rat navigationM A Arbib
USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 352:1429-36. 1997..These models demonstrate that posterior parietal cortex is not only itself a network of interacting subsystems, but functions through cooperative computation with many other brain regions...- Mirror system activity for action and language is embedded in the integration of dorsal and ventral pathwaysMichael A Arbib
University of Southern California Brain Project, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Brain Lang 112:12-24. 2010..Turning to language, we use Construction Grammar as our linguistic framework to get beyond single words to phrases and sentences, and initiate analysis of what brain functions must complement mirror systems to support this functionality... - Language evolution: neural homologies and neuroinformaticsMichael Arbib
Neuroscience Program and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Neural Netw 16:1237-60. 2003.... - A model of the cerebellum in adaptive control of saccadic gain. II. Simulation resultsN Schweighofer
Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Biol Cybern 75:29-36. 1996..Our simulation results are in good agreement with neurophysiological and behavioral data. Furthermore, we suggest several new experiments to test the validity of our predictions on adaptive saccadic control... - A model of the cerebellum in adaptive control of saccadic gain. I. The model and its biological substrateN Schweighofer
Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Biol Cybern 75:19-28. 1996..In a companion paper we simulate this large, realistic network of neural-like units to study the complex spatiotemporal behavior of neuronal subpopulations implicated in the control and adaptation of saccades... - Role of the cerebellum in reaching movements in humans. II. A neural model of the intermediate cerebellumN Schweighofer
Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Eur J Neurosci 10:95-105. 1998..These results support the theory that the cerebellum is involved in motor learning... - Stroke rehabilitation reaches a thresholdCheol E Han
Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 4:e1000133. 2008..If spontaneous arm use is still low or has decreased, then another bout of rehabilitation is to be provided... - Schema design and implementation of the grasp-related mirror neuron systemErhan Oztop
USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
Biol Cybern 87:116-40. 2002.... - Schema-based learning of adaptable and flexible prey-catching in anurans I. The basic architectureFernando Corbacho
USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089 0871, USA
Biol Cybern 93:391-409. 2005..To show these aspects we incorporate studies on experiments on lesions and the learning processes that allow the animal to recover its proper functioning... - Competitive Hebbian learning and the hippocampal place cell system: modeling the interaction of visual and path integration cuesA Guazzelli
University of Southern California Brain Project, Los Angeles, USA
Hippocampus 11:216-39. 2001..In so doing, it makes new predictions regarding the nature of the interaction between visual and path integration cues during new learning and when the system is challenged with environmental changes... - Localization of grasp representations in humans by positron emission tomography. 2. Observation compared with imaginationS T Grafton
Department of Radiology and Neurology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Exp Brain Res 112:103-11. 1996..A similar segregation is also present in the cerebellum, with imagined and observed grasping movements activating different parts of the posterior lobe and real movements activating the anterior lobe... - Tool use and the distalization of the end-effectorMichael A Arbib
Department of Computer Science and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Psychol Res 73:441-62. 2009..This distalization is critical in order to exploit the unique functional capacities engendered by complex tools... - Primate vocalization, gesture, and the evolution of human languageMichael A Arbib
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Curr Anthropol 49:1053-63; discussion 1063-76. 2008..The analysis refines aspects of the mirror system hypothesis on the role of the primate brain's mirror system for manual action in evolution of the human language-ready brain... - Evolving the language-ready brain and the social mechanisms that support languageMichael A Arbib
Computer Science, Neuroscience and the USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, HNB 03, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
J Commun Disord 42:263-71. 2009.... - A functional threshold for long-term use of hand and arm function can be determined: predictions from a computational model and supporting data from the Extremity Constraint-Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) TrialNicolas Schweighofer
Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the School of Dentistry, and Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Phys Ther 89:1327-36. 2009..A previous neurocomputational model predicted that if the dose of therapy is sufficient to bring performance above a certain threshold, training can be stopped... - Integrating databases and expert systems for the analysis of brain structures: connections, similarities, and homologiesMihail Bota
NIBS Program in Neurosciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Neuroinformatics 2:19-58. 2004.... - Describing visual scenes: towards a neurolinguistics based on construction grammarMichael A Arbib
Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Brain Res 1225:146-62. 2008..We summarize data on neural correlates relevant to future work on TCG within the context of neurolinguistics, and show how the relation between SemRep and TCG can serve as the basis for modeling language comprehension... - Salamander locomotion-induced head movement and retinal motion sensitivity in a correlation-based motion detector modelJeffrey R Begley
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, 941 W 37th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0781, USA
Network 18:101-28. 2007..The sigmoid has insignificant effects on detector performance in simulations of slow, high contrast laboratory stimuli. These results suggest that the sigmoid reduces the system's noise sensitivity... - Extending the mirror neuron system model, II: what did I just do? A new role for mirror neuronsJames Bonaiuto
University of Southern California, Hedco Neuroscience Building, 120E, Room 10B, Mailing Code 2520, 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90089 2520, USA
Biol Cybern 102:341-59. 2010.... - Role of the cerebellum in reaching movements in humans. I. Distributed inverse dynamics controlN Schweighofer
Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 2520, USA
Eur J Neurosci 10:86-94. 1998.... - Modeling functions of striatal dopamine modulation in learning and planningR E Suri
USC Brain Project, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
Neuroscience 103:65-85. 2001.... - Schema-based learning of adaptable and flexible prey- catching in anurans II. Learning after lesioningFernando Corbacho
USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089 0781, USA
Biol Cybern 93:410-25. 2005..Learning after lesioning is a special case of structural learning but clearly shows that solutions cannot be known/hardwired a priori since it cannot be known, in advance, which substructure is going to break down... - Schizophrenia and the mirror system: an essayMichael A Arbib
Computer Science, Neuroscience, and the USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:268-80. 2005..Schizophrenic patients on this theory then confabulate the agent... - Infant grasp learning: a computational modelErhan Oztop
ATR, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, 2 2 2 Hikaridai, Seika cho, 619 0288 Soraku gun, Kyoto, Japan
Exp Brain Res 158:480-503. 2004..Moreover, ILGM produces testable predictions regarding infant motor learning processes and poses new questions to experimentalists...