Michael A Arbib

Summary

Affiliation: University of Southern California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Tool use and constructions
    Michael A Arbib
    Computer Science, Neuroscience, and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Behav Brain Sci 35:218-9. 2012
  2. ncbi Tool use and the distalization of the end-effector
    Michael 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
  3. ncbi Primate vocalization, gesture, and the evolution of human language
    Michael A Arbib
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Curr Anthropol 49:1053-63; discussion 1063-76. 2008
  4. ncbi Evolving the language-ready brain and the social mechanisms that support language
    Michael 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
  5. ncbi Describing visual scenes: towards a neurolinguistics based on construction grammar
    Michael A Arbib
    Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Brain Res 1225:146-62. 2008
  6. ncbi From monkey-like action recognition to human language: an evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics
    Michael 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
  7. ncbi Schema-based learning of adaptable and flexible prey- catching in anurans II. Learning after lesioning
    Fernando Corbacho
    USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089 0781, USA
    Biol Cybern 93:410-25. 2005
  8. ncbi Rana computatrix to human language: towards a computational neuroethology of language evolution
    Michael A Arbib
    Department of Computer Science, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 361:2345-79. 2003
  9. ncbi Mirror system activity for action and language is embedded in the integration of dorsal and ventral pathways
    Michael A Arbib
    University of Southern California Brain Project, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Brain Lang 112:12-24. 2010
  10. ncbi 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

Research Grants

  1. TRAINING IN COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
    Michael Arbib; Fiscal Year: 2002

Detail Information

Publications22

  1. ncbi Tool use and constructions
    Michael A Arbib
    Computer Science, Neuroscience, and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Behav Brain Sci 35:218-9. 2012
    ....
  2. ncbi Tool use and the distalization of the end-effector
    Michael 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...
  3. ncbi Primate vocalization, gesture, and the evolution of human language
    Michael 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...
  4. ncbi Evolving the language-ready brain and the social mechanisms that support language
    Michael 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
    ....
  5. ncbi Describing visual scenes: towards a neurolinguistics based on construction grammar
    Michael 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...
  6. ncbi From monkey-like action recognition to human language: an evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics
    Michael 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
    ....
  7. ncbi Schema-based learning of adaptable and flexible prey- catching in anurans II. Learning after lesioning
    Fernando 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...
  8. ncbi Rana computatrix to human language: towards a computational neuroethology of language evolution
    Michael A Arbib
    Department of Computer Science, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Philos Trans 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...
  9. ncbi Mirror system activity for action and language is embedded in the integration of dorsal and ventral pathways
    Michael 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...
  10. ncbi 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
    ....
  11. ncbi Stroke rehabilitation reaches a threshold
    Cheol 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...
  12. ncbi 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) Trial
    Nicolas 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...
  13. ncbi Extending the mirror neuron system model, II: what did I just do? A new role for mirror neurons
    James 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
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  14. ncbi Schema design and implementation of the grasp-related mirror neuron system
    Erhan Oztop
    USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
    Biol Cybern 87:116-40. 2002
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  15. ncbi Schema-based learning of adaptable and flexible prey-catching in anurans I. The basic architecture
    Fernando 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...
  16. ncbi Schizophrenia and the mirror system: an essay
    Michael 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...
  17. ncbi Integrating databases and expert systems for the analysis of brain structures: connections, similarities, and homologies
    Mihail Bota
    NIBS Program in Neurosciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, USA
    Neuroinformatics 2:19-58. 2004
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  18. ncbi From grasp to language: embodied concepts and the challenge of abstraction
    Michael 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]...
  19. ncbi Autonomous robots based on inspiration from biology: the relation to neuroinformatics
    Michael 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
  20. ncbi Emotions: from brain to robot
    Michael 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...
  21. ncbi Salamander locomotion-induced head movement and retinal motion sensitivity in a correlation-based motion detector model
    Jeffrey 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...
  22. ncbi Infant grasp learning: a computational model
    Erhan 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...

Research Grants1

  1. TRAINING IN COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
    Michael Arbib; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..The plan for the postdoctoral position focuses on permitting a student trained in psychology or linguistics to gain additional expertise related to cognitive and computational neuroscience. ..