Kristsana Seepanomwan, Daniele Caligiore, G. Baldassarre, A. Cangelosi
{"title":"A cognitive robotic model of mental rotation","authors":"Kristsana Seepanomwan, Daniele Caligiore, G. Baldassarre, A. Cangelosi","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609163","url":null,"abstract":"Mental rotation processes allow an agent to mentally rotate an image of an object in order to solve a given task, for example to make a decision on whether two objects presented with different rotational orientation are same or different. This article proposes a bio-constrained neural network model that accounts for the mental rotation processes based on neural mechanisms involving not only visual imagery but also affordance encoding, motor simulation, and the anticipation of the visual consequences of actions. The proposed model is in agreement with the theoretical and empirical research on mental rotation. The model is validated with a simulated humanoid robot (iCub) engaged in solving a typical mental rotation task. The results of the simulations show that the model is able to solve a mental rotation task and, in agreement with data from psychology experiments, they also show response times linearly dependent on the angular disparity between the objects. The model represents a novel account of the brain sensorimotor mechanisms that might underlie mental rotation.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129038611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dany H. Assaf, Yair Neuman, Yohai Cohen, S. Argamon, N. Howard, Mark Last, O. Frieder, Moshe Koppel
{"title":"Why “dark thoughts” aren't really dark: A novel algorithm for metaphor identification","authors":"Dany H. Assaf, Yair Neuman, Yohai Cohen, S. Argamon, N. Howard, Mark Last, O. Frieder, Moshe Koppel","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609166","url":null,"abstract":"Distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language is a major challenge facing natural language processing. Heuristically, metaphors can be divided into three general types in which type III metaphors are those involving an adjective-noun relationship (e.g. “dark humor”). This paper describes our approach for automatic identification of type III metaphors. We propose a new algorithm, the Concrete-Category Overlap (CCO) algorithm, that distinguishes between literal and metaphorical use of adjective-noun relationships and evaluate it on two data sets of adjective-noun phrases. Our results point to the superiority of the CCO algorithm to past and contemporary approaches in determining the presence and conceptual significance of metaphors, and provide a better understanding of the conditions under which each algorithm should be applied.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130270257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Taylor, G. Baier, S. Cash, J. Dauwels, J. Slotine, Yujiang Wang
{"title":"A model of stimulus induced epileptic spike-wave discharges","authors":"P. Taylor, G. Baier, S. Cash, J. Dauwels, J. Slotine, Yujiang Wang","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609165","url":null,"abstract":"Recent clinical and experimental evidence suggests that the spike-wave discharges (SWD) of absence seizures result from local activity within a hyperexcitable cortical region with rapid generalization through thalamocortical networks. The cortical focus is said to react more strongly to stimulation than other areas. We seek to develop a model which is in agreement with these recent experimental findings and suggest a possible explanation. In this study we extend an existing neural field model of thalamocortical interaction to account for multiple cortical regions which are connected according connectivity inferred from a clinically diagnosed epileptic patient. We stimulate at different model electrodes and investigate the resulting seizure duration. We observe that stimulation of only a small subset (11%) of model electrodes can lead to the rapid generalisation of SWD via both corticocortical and thalamocortical pathways. We find that the resulting model dynamics (seizure duration) varies significantly dependent upon the nodes stimulated and the amplitude of the stimulus. Our model indicates that heterogeneities in corticocortical connectivity could serve as a possible reason for the cortical focus and provides a platform for in silico hypothesis generation in complement to in vivo hypothesis validation.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"515 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116214282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chih-Sheng Huang, Chun-Ling Lin, L. Ko, Shen-Yi Liu, Tung-Ping Su, Chin-Teng Lin
{"title":"A hierarchical classification system for sleep stage scoring via forehead EEG signals","authors":"Chih-Sheng Huang, Chun-Ling Lin, L. Ko, Shen-Yi Liu, Tung-Ping Su, Chin-Teng Lin","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609157","url":null,"abstract":"The study adopts the structure of hierarchical classification to develop an automatic sleep stage classification system using forehead (Fpl and Fp2) EEG signals. The hierarchical classification consists of a preliminary wake detection rule, a novel feature extraction method based on American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) scoring manual, feature selection methods and SVM. After estimating the preliminary sleep stages, two adaptive adjustment schemes are applied to adjust the preliminary sleep stages and provide the final estimation of sleep stages. Clinical testing reveals that the proposed automatic sleep stage classification system is about 77% accuracy and 67% kappa for individual 10 normal subjects. This system could provide the possibility of long term sleep monitoring at home and provide a preliminary result of sleep stages so that doctor could decide if a patient needs to have a detailed diagnosis using Polysomnography (PSG) system in a sleep laboratory of hospital.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122535308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connectivity pattern modeling of motor imagery EEG","authors":"Xinyang Li, S. Ong, Yaozhang Pan, K. Ang","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609171","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the functional connectivity network of motor imagery based on EEG is investigated to understand brain function during motor imagery. In particular, partial directed coherence and directed transfer function measurements are applied to multi-channel EEG data to find out event related connectivity pattern with the direction and strength. The t-test is applied to these connectivity measurements to compare the network between motor imagery and the rest state. The possible relationship between this connectivity pattern and subjects performances are discussed. Based on the Granger causality analysis, a feature extraction method is proposed to compensate for nonstationarity in data. By attenuating the time-lagged correlation, this feature extraction method based on the multi-variate autoregression model is proposed to reduce the effects of noises caused by time propagation. The validity of the proposed method is verified through experimental studies with a two-class dataset, and significant improvement in term of classification accuracy is achieved.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126216713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fachantidis, A. D. Nuovo, A. Cangelosi, I. Vlahavas
{"title":"Model-based reinforcement learning for humanoids: A study on forming rewards with the iCub platform","authors":"A. Fachantidis, A. D. Nuovo, A. Cangelosi, I. Vlahavas","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609170","url":null,"abstract":"Technological advancements in robotics and cognitive science are contributing to the development of the field of cognitive robotics. Modern robotic platforms are able to exhibit the ability to learn and reason about complex tasks and to follow behavioural goals in complex environments. Nevertheless, many challenges still exist. One of these great challenges is to equip these robots with cognitive systems that allow them to deal with less constrained situations, beyond constrained scenarios as in industrial robotics. In this work we explore the application of the Reinforcement Learning (RL) paradigm to study the autonomous development of robot controllers without a priori supervised learning. Such a model-based RL architecture is discussed for the cognitive implications of applying RL in humanoid robots. To this end we show a developmental framework for RL in robotics and its implementation and testing for the iCub robotic platform in two novel experimental scenarios. In particular we focus on iCub simulation experiments with comparisons between internal perception-based reward signals and external ones, in order to compare learning performance of the robot guided by its own perception of action's outcomes with the one when the robot has its actions externally evaluated.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117150701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu-Lin Wang, Sheng-Fu Liang, Fu-Zen Shaw, Y. Huang, Yin-Lin Chen
{"title":"An energy efficient real-time seizure detection method in rats with spontaneous temporal lobe epilepsy","authors":"Yu-Lin Wang, Sheng-Fu Liang, Fu-Zen Shaw, Y. Huang, Yin-Lin Chen","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609162","url":null,"abstract":"The presence of an on-line seizure detection system could drive an antiepileptic stimulator in real time to suppress seizure generation and to enhance the patients' safety and quality of life. In this paper, the continuous long-term EEGs of three Wistar rats with spontaneous temporal lobe seizure were analyzed. We proposed the development of an energy efficient real-time seizure detection method that employs a hierarchical architecture. The first stage was used to fast detect the seizure-like EEG segment, and a classifier was utilized in the second stage for final confirmation. Only when a suspected seizure segment is found, the second stage is activated. With 2-staged architecture, it saved about 99.4% computation energy in the experiment. Therefore, it is useful to improve the longevity of the closed-loop seizure control system. Three classifiers, linear discriminant analysis (LDA), quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) and support vector machine (SVM), were applied for comparison. From the experimental results, three classifiers yielded the comparable performances. However, considering of the trade-off between detection performances and power consumption, LDA which yielded the 100% detection rate, 0.22 FP/hr, and 1.69 s detection latency is suggested for a portable closed-loop seizure controller.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128811246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Duvinage, J. Cubeta, T. Castermans, M. Petieau, T. Hoellinger, G. Cheron, T. Dutoit
{"title":"A quantitative comparison of the most sophisticated EOG-based eye movement recognition techniques","authors":"M. Duvinage, J. Cubeta, T. Castermans, M. Petieau, T. Hoellinger, G. Cheron, T. Dutoit","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609164","url":null,"abstract":"Although ElectroOculoGraphic (EOG) signals have been intensively used for human-machine interfaces, none of the available eye movement recognition techniques have been objectively compared to each other. In this paper, we propose to compare two widely known techniques (the standard R. Barea (RB) and A. Bulling (AB)'s works) and a Spiking Neural Network based approach. We also suggest several potential improvements that were all assessed according to the Fl-score. Additionally, we investigate 3 different target configurations on the screen: 3×3, 3×5 and 5×5. This aims at detecting which configuration can reach the best bitrate. Finally, double blink and wink detectors are Fl-score evaluated to estimate their relevancy as a mouse click. In this 6-healthy-subject experiment, we observed that both RB and AB methods provide fairly similar results. According to the bitrate analysis while considering complexity, the 3×3 is the most suitable interface. Among the different potential enhancements, the clustering approach instead of a fixed grid leads to a much quicker learning procedure. Regarding the eye mouse click detectors, their performance should be high enough to be used in a reliable interface.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114364766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiking-timing based pattern recognition with real-world visual stimuli","authors":"Jun Hu, Huajin Tang, K. Tan","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609161","url":null,"abstract":"Pattern recognition has been widely studied in the field of computational intelligence. However, primates outperform existing algorithms in cognitive tasks without any difficulty and most of current methods lack enough biological plausibility. Inspired by recent biological findings, a spike-timing based computational model is described, in which information is represented by temporal codes with explicit firing times rather than firing rates of neurons. Visual stimulation is converted into precisely timed spikes by a retina-like model. Encoded spatiotemporal patterns are learned by a temporal learning algorithm based on spiking-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). The computational model integrates encoding and learning with a unified neural representation closing the gap between them. We show that our integrated model is capable of recognizing real world stimuli such as images successfully with fast and efficient neural computation.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129772924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ko, Hua-Chin Lee, Shu-Fang Tsai, Tsung-Chin Shih, Ya-Ting Chuang, Hui-Ling Huang, Shinn-Ying Ho, Chin-Teng Lin
{"title":"EEG-based motion sickness classification system with genetic feature selection","authors":"L. Ko, Hua-Chin Lee, Shu-Fang Tsai, Tsung-Chin Shih, Ya-Ting Chuang, Hui-Ling Huang, Shinn-Ying Ho, Chin-Teng Lin","doi":"10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCMB.2013.6609180","url":null,"abstract":"People tend to get motion sickness on a moving boat, train, airplane, car, or amusement park rides. Many previous studies indicated that motion sickness sometimes led to traffic accidents, so it becomes an important issue in our daily life. In this study, we designed a VR-based motion-sickness platform with a 32-channel EEG system and a joystick which is used to report the motion sickness level (MSL) in real time during experiments. The results show it is feasible to estimate subject's MSL based on re-sampling frequency band proved by the high test accuracy. A comparison between general prediction models (such as LDA, QDA, KNN) and IBCGA shows that the IBCGA can be effectively increase the accuracy. In this paper, an extended-IBCGA (e-IBCGA) is proposed and it provides more accuracy than the prior-art research. The test results show that e-IBCGA increases at least 10% to 20% test accuracy in 6 subjects.","PeriodicalId":395025,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB)","volume":"46 27","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113958113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}