Connectionists: Neural plasticity for rich and uncertain robotic information streams, abstract deadline extended 12th September.

[f.vandervelde at utwente.nl]

Dear Connectionists,

We extended the abstract submission deadline for the research topic “Neural plasticity for rich and uncertain information streams”, hosted by Frontiers in Neurorobotics, due to requests. The new deadline is 12th of September. Note that the paper submission deadline remains unchanged (Jan 12, 2015).

Description: Models of adaptation and neural plasticity are often demonstrated in robotic scenarios with heavily pre-processed and regulated information streams to provide learning algorithms with appropriate, well timed, and meaningful data to match the assumptions of learning rules. On the contrary, natural scenarios are often rich of raw, asynchronous, overlapping and uncertain inputs and outputs whose relationships and meaning are progressively acquired, disambiguated, and used for further learning. Therefore, recent research efforts focus on neural embodied systems that rely less on well timed and pre-processed inputs, but rather extract autonomously relationships and features in time and space. In particular, realistic and more complete models of plasticity must account for delayed rewards, noisy and ambiguous data, emerging and novel input features during online learning. Such approaches model the progressive acquisition of knowledge into neural systems through experience in environments that may be affected by ambiguities, uncertain signals, delays, or novel features. This research topic promises to unveil fundamental properties and dynamics of neural learning system that are naturally immersed in a rich information flow. We invite papers describing advances in robotic neural learning systems that model adaptation or plasticity with a rich and realistic stream of information.

Abstract Submission Deadline (extended): Sep 12, 2014,
Article Submission Deadline: Jan 12, 2015

Topic Editor(s): Andrea Soltoggio, Frank van der Velde

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With best regards,

Frank van der Velde and Andrea Soltoggio

Guest Associate Editors, Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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