Title
Learning Joint Representations For Order And Timing Of Perceptual-Motor Sequences: A Dynamic Neural Field Approach
Abstract
Many of our everyday tasks require the control of the serial order and the timing of component actions. Using the dynamic neural field (DNF) framework, we address the learning of representations that support the performance of precisely time action sequences. In continuation of previous modeling work and robotics implementations, we ask specifically the question how feedback about executed actions might be used by the learning system to fine tune a joint memory representation of the ordinal and the temporal structure which has been initially acquired by observation. The perceptual memory is represented by a self-stabilized, multi-bump activity pattern of neurons encoding instances of a sensory event (e.g., color, position or pitch) which guides sequence learning. The strength of the population representation of each event is a function of elapsed time since sequence onset. We propose and test in simulations a simple learning rule that detects a mismatch between the expected and realized timing of events and adapts the activation strengths in order to compensate for the movement time needed to achieve the desired effect. The simulation results show that the effector-specific memory representation can be robustly recalled. We discuss the impact of the fast, activation-based learning that the DNF framework provides for robotics applications.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
2015 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN)
Robot learning,Competitive learning,Multi-task learning,Instance-based learning,Computer science,Unsupervised learning,Learning rule,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Sequence learning,Machine learning
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2161-4393
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weronika Wojtak183.34
Flora Ferreira273.83
Wolfram Erlhagen310822.63
Estela Bicho422324.15