(2005). Understanding how mind emerges from matter is one of the great remaining questions in science. (2006). (2010). For neural networks specifically, we lack a unifying mathematical framework to unambiguously describe the emergent behavior of the network in terms of its underlying structure (Bassett and Sporns, 2017). (2019). Even though one of the most popular algorithms in autonomous vehicles has a version based on certain aspects of the neuroscience of the navigation system in rodents (Milford et al., 2010; Ball et al., 2013; Xu L. et al., 2019), this particular approach has not been designed to advance what we know about the brain, suggesting a potentially unrealized opportunity for synnergy between the neuroscience of spatial navigation and AI (Dudek and Jenkin, 2002; Zafar and Mohanta, 2018). (2018). doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.011, Hawkins, J., and Ahmad, S. (2016). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience; Abbreviation. Research Hotspot. If we assume that intelligent behavior can be understood by studying how it emerges, it is reasonable to attempt to learn from a working example: biological brains. Exp. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006624, Cazin, N., Scleidorovich, P., Weitzenfeld, A., and Dominey, P. F. (2020). Another important interaction between AI and Neuroscience in spatial navigation has been the idea that the hippocampus is not a spatial cognitive map but instead, a prediction map (Evans and Burgess, 2019). The cells that encode space in allocentric or map-like coordinates are generally found in the hippocampal formation and several limbic-thalamic and limbic-cortical regions. This type of work in which similar representations to the ones found in real brains are used to solve navigation tasks is important because they provide opportunities to learn more about how similar processes might happen in the brain. Nat. In parallel to the advances in AI, the field of neuroscience has experienced tremendous progress in recent years due to the technological advances that allow high density recordings of brain activity with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution from multiple parts of the brain simultaneously (Steinmetz et al., 2018). Engineering a less artificial intelligence. Here we have applied the Random Forest (RF) method to detect differences in the pharmacological MRI (phMRI) response in rats to treatment … For example, DNNs have been used to reproduce brain activity in the visual system to learn about the organization of this network in primates (Walker et al., 2019) and mice (Cadena et al., 2019). This limitation is contrasted with the biological counterparts in which learning happens very rapidly in most cases. Adapted from Solstad et al. Science 362, 945–949. The brain has a body: adaptive behavior emerges from interactions of nervous system, body and environment. 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While hippocampal circuitry has been linked with allocentric spatial processing, subcortical regions such as a basal ganglia-cortical circuit are thought to contribute to some forms of egocentric action-based navigation. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.10-02-00420.1990, Taube, J. S. (2007). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience citation style guide with bibliography and in-text referencing examples: Journal articles Books Book chapters Reports Web pages. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Cortical representation of motion during unrestrained spatial navigation in the rat. 58, 229–238. Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus. Finally, we highlight the limitations of the proposed approach and conclude by providing future directions in which a closer interaction between the fields could improve our understanding of the brain and ultimately of intelligent behavior. A fundamental neuroscience question is how memories are maintained from days to a lifetime, given turnover of proteins that underlie expression of long-term synaptic potentiation (LTP) or “tag” synapses as eligible for LTP. Curr. Next, we discuss how AI can advance neuroscience, how neuroscience can advance AI, and the limitations of these approaches. Accurate path integration in continuous attractor network models of grid cells. The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to the end of April. Real-time sensory-motor integration of hippocampal place cell replay and prefrontal sequence learning in simulated and physical rat robots for novel path optimization. A., Tombaz, T., Bojja, V. P. T. N. C. S., and Whitlock, J. R. (2018). Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead. “RL2: Fast reinforcement learning via slow reinforcement learning,” in Fifth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 1–18. The Standard Abbreviation (ISO4) of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience is “Front. In summary, the mammalian nervous system encodes a map-like representation of space. Jonas, E., and Kording, K. P. (2017). Импакт-фактор 2019 Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience is составляет 2.570 (Последние данные в 2020 году). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Impact Factor, IF, number of article, detailed … Biol. Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes. Neurosci. Science 365:eaax4192. Brain-based devices for the study of nervous systems and the development of intelligent machines. For example, in one variant of this framework, McNaughton et al. One is the complexity, because by employing such models it is difficult to analyze them and to fully explain their behavior, particularly when using end-to-end approaches. Attention is the important ability to flexibly control limited computational resources. Richards, B. 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In addition, we have summarized the neurobiology of RL and how RL has been implemented to solve spatial navigation tasks. doi: 10.5555/2627435.2670313, Stachenfeld, K. L., Botvinick, M. M., and Gershman, S. J. 10, 420–435. Curr. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.002, Anggraini, D., Glasauer, S., and Wunderlich, K. (2018). PLoS Comput. In contrast, when the hippocampus is involved, faster one-shot associative learning rules are applied to solve spatial navigation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Brain Res. Nat. Cueva, C. J., and Wei, X.-X. 13, 987–994. 10:10722. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10722-y, Høydal, Ø. Trends Neurosci. 10:23. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2016.00023, Hawkins, J., Lewis, M., Klukas, M., Purdy, S., and Ahmad, S. (2019). (1991). Hinman, J. R., Chapman, G. W., and Hasselmo, M. E. (2019). Egocentric coding of external items in the lateral entorhinal cortex. (2016). One of the intermediate representations that the simulated agents used to keep track its location when doing path integration was grid cell-like activity patterns. Inception loops discover what excites neurons most using deep predictive models. doi: 10.1002/hipo.20939, Nitz, D. A. The brain … The blue and red boxes represent a spectrum denoting the relative density of egocentric (viewer-dependent, self-centered, or action centered frame of reference) vs. allocentric (map-like) encoding for each region. In spatial navigation for example, this variability is useful for favoring the emergence of robust representations that resemble the spatial representations found in the medial temporal lobe (Banino et al., 2018). Nat. A similar approach has been applied in ANNs to solve spatial navigation in simulated agents and robots (Cazin et al., 2019, 2020). Neurosci. Neurosci. 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Computational descriptive models propose that cell populations within the anterior thalamic nuclei, parietal cortex, and retrosplenial cortex operate as a network that transforms spatial information from an egocentric (e.g., body centered) to allocentric (i.e., map-like) frame of reference and vice versa (reviewed in Clark et al., 2018). 28, 687–697. What is a cognitive map? A consequence of this framework is a sustained hill of excitation centered on the animal's current HD. This is important not only to understand the brain but also because these transformations can be important to extract knowledge by deriving semantic knowledge form episodic memories (Figure 3D; Buzsáki and Moser, 2013; Wang et al., 2020). OpenRatSLAM: an open source brain-based SLAM system. PLoS Comput. 26, 776–787. This open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics and the public worldwide. 4.52 %. 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As previously mentioned, there are strong examples of contributions from neuroscience and psychology to the advancement of AI, such as the inspiration for connectionism and of ANNs (Rumelhart et al., 1988), the hierarchical organization of the mammalian visual processing in the cortex for the development of deep learning (Schmidhuber, 2014), the successful application of attentional mechanisms to active computer vision (Bermudez Contreras et al., 2008) or training ANNs (Graves, 2013; Sutskever et al., 2014), and the impressive development of RL systems that can beat world-class players at highly-complex games (Botvinick et al., 2019). Data in (A–C,E) are from Harvey et al. Lipson, H., and Kurman, M. (2016). Replay of neuronal firing sequences in rat hippocampus during sleep following spatial experience. Principles governing the integration of landmark and self-motion cues in entorhinal cortical codes for navigation. Curr. Methodology for path planning and optimization of mobile robots: a review. For example, successful applications of classic DL are highly optimized non-linear classifier systems that require many training examples to fine tune a large number of parameters rather than systems that extract knowledge by building robust semantic understanding of the inputs. (2019). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience's journal/conference profile on Publons, with 1079 reviews by 91 reviewers - working with reviewers, publishers, institutions, and funding agencies to turn peer review into a measurable research output. Science 363, 692–693. Second, spatial navigation has been proposed to follow two different complementary learning strategies that reflect the processes that are computed in the hippocampus and the striatum (Chersi and Burgess, 2015). 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A similar limitation in RL arises in complex environments where agents require a large number of exposures to the environment in order to improve policies (which is the way that determines how the agent interact with its environment). Hippocampal map realignment and spatial learning. *Correspondence: Edgar Bermudez-Contreras, edgar.bermudez@uleth.ca; Benjamin J. Clark, bnjclark@unm.edu; Aaron Wilber, wilber@psy.fsu.edu, Front. “A unified theory for the origin of grid cells through the lens of pattern formation,” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), (Vancouver, BC), 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2018.10.017, Xu, L., Feng, C., Kamat, V. R., and Menassa, C. C. (2019). Cambridge: MIT Press. Retrosplenial cortex (RSC). (A) Path integration requires keeping track of the turns and distances traveled as the animal explores the environment (top). (2020). Biol. A., Lillicrap, T. P., Beaudoin, P., Bengio, Y., Bogacz, R., Christensen, A., et al. 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The definition of journal acceptance rate is the percentage of all articles submitted to Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience that was accepted for publication. The range of such work varies from descriptive and mechanistic models in which the goal is to reproduce experimental data using explicit hypotheses about brain organization, to more recent approaches that rely less on explicit experimenter definitions and use ANNs as a model of the brain. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000995, Mimica, B., Dunn, B. McNaughton, B. L., Mizumori, S. J. Y., Barnes, C. A., Leonard, B. J., Marquis, M., and Green, E. J. Experimental support for this theory is derived from studies that require rodents (and humans) to solve navigational tasks where the goal location is not visible from an animals current location (Knierim and Hamilton, 2011). Impact Factor 2.536 | CiteScore 4.8More on impact ›, How Can Neuroscience Contribute to the Development of General Artificial Intelligence? (2002). Nat. During testing, when obstacles where removed, only the agents using grid-like representations used shorter routes (bottom). doi: 10.1126/science.aaf0941. doi: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.08.014, Bermudez Contreras, E. J., Schjetnan, A. G. P., Muhammad, A., Bartho, P., McNaughton, B. L., Kolb, B., et al. More recently, with the advancement in ANNs, there are more AI end-to-end (normative) approaches to model spatial navigation in which the parameters that determine the representations and how they are exploited are not specified explicitly. Rev. Biobehav. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0508-17.2018, Walker, E. Y., Sinz, F. H., Cobos, E., Muhammad, T., Froudarakis, E., Fahey, P. G., et al. (D) Schematic representation of the deep RL approach for spatial navigation. 34, 5431–5446. We briefly describe these spatial cell types in greater detail below to provide relevant biological restrictions that can be used in the development of models to study spatial navigation that can inform neuroscience. For example, in the field of spatial navigation, knowledge about the mechanisms and brain regions involved in neural computations of cognitive maps—an internal representation of space—recently received the Nobel Prize in medicine. The initial computations involve a layer composed of two neural populations: an allocentric HD cell signal, which is generated within a subcortical circuit including anterior thalamic-to-cortical projections, and an egocentric cell signal by parietal cortex neurons which are modulated by the animals' egocentric heading relative to a landmark. Some people don’t like the Frontiers apparatus in general, but in my opinion they do publish good papers in neuroscience (I don’t know about their other subfields). 7, 663–678. For example, mammals are capable of navigating in darkness using internal representations of space or using sensory cues and are capable of rapidly updating these representations when distant cues and landmarks are available (Rosenzweig et al., 2003). A., Fischer, I., Dillon, J. V., and Murphy, K. (2019). Biol. Neurosci. Recently, there are studies in which applying biologically relevant restrictions to the ANNs led to understanding how these processes occur in the brain. 11, 1–13. 127, 49–69. For instance, neural populations in the parietal and retrosplenial cortex fire in response to an animal's egocentric actions or posture (McNaughton et al., 1994; Whitlock et al., 2012; Wilber et al., 2017; Mimica et al., 2018), egocentric orientation relative to a landmark or environmental boundary (Wilber et al., 2014; Alexander et al., 2020), and location along a complex route (Nitz, 2006). doi: 10.1196/annals.1440.002, Bush, D., Barry, C., Manson, D., and Burgess, N. (2015). In addition, animals can localize their position and produce trajectories to goal locations by using self-motion cues, e.g., vestibular, proprioceptive, optic flow often referred to as path integration or dead reckoning (Gallistel, 1990; McNaughton et al., 1991; Whishaw et al., 2001). (2019). There are numerous examples of experimental evidence that replays occurs in multiple areas of the brain (Skaggs and McNaughton, 1996; Kudrimoti et al., 1999; Euston et al., 2007; Bermudez Contreras et al., 2013; Wilber et al., 2017). These simulations can help to understand how the transformation of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference can be employed by the brain when using different navigation strategies. Nat. Opin. 29, 1–12. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.09.020. Progress in understanding the amazing capabilities of the brain is still limited, and we believe that it will only come with deep theoretical thinking and mutually stimulating cooperation between different disciplines and approaches. In this version of RL, deep NN are used to approximate value and transition functions using environmental (sensory) information (instead of a look up table or another function approximation method) (Botvinick et al., 2019). (2015). Research is often a slow process, requiring the careful design, optimization, and replication of experiments. (2003). doi: 10.1038/s41593-019-0562-5, Musall, S., Urai, A., Sussillo, D., and Churchland, A. Here we will use the term “hypothesis driven models” to encapsulate both descriptive and mechanistic models. Having access to different scales allows the system to represent space at different resolutions. 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