Title
Analyzing Interactions between Navigation Strategies Using a Computational Model of Action Selection
Abstract
For animals as well as for humans, the hypothesis of multiple memory systems involved in different navigation strategies is supported by several biological experiments. However, due to technical limitations, it remains difficult for experimentalists to elucidate how these neural systems interact. We present how a computational model of selection between navigation strategies can be used to analyse phenomena that cannot be directly observed in biological experiments. We reproduce an experiment where the rat's behaviour is assumed to be ruled by two different navigation strategies (a cue-guided and a map-based one). Using a modelling approach, we can explain the experimental results in terms of interactions between these systems, either competing or cooperating at specific moments of the experiment. Modelling such systems can help biological investigations to explain and predict the animal behaviour.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-87601-4_8
Spatial Cognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
animal behaviour,modelling approach,navigation strategy,biological experiment,neural systems interact,computational model,analyzing interactions,multiple memory system,biological investigation,navigation strategies,different navigation strategy,action selection,computer model
Neural system,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Action selection,Memory systems,Machine learning,Robotics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5248
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Laurent Dollé151.18
Khamassi Mehdi211216.51
Girard Benoît318522.20
Agnès Guillot420845.37
Ricardo Chavarriaga553843.76