Evolutionary Developmental Neurocomputing

Computational Modeling of Neural Organization in Evolution

• Major divergence in neural achitecture in evolution of premitive nervous systems
• Coupling between brain and body in evolution [1][2]
• Developmental bias [1]
• Influence of plasticity
• Influence of proprioceptive feedback [3]
• Energy constraints [4][5]

Computational Modeling Activity-Independent and Activity-Dependent Neural Development

• Cell division, migration and differentiation [6]
• Axon growth, dendrite outgrowth and synapse maturation
• Synaptic refinement

Computational Modeling of Synaptic, Neuronal Plasticity and Structural Plasticity

• Synaptic plasticity, intrinsic plasticity and homeostatic plasticity [7]
• Metaplasticity [8]
• Structural plasticity [9]

Developmental Neural Networks

• Modeling structural and synaptic plasticiy in spiking neural networks
• Developmental approaches to reservoir computing

References

1. Lisa Schramm, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff. Emerged coupling of motor control and morphological development in evolution of multi-cellular animates. 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, Budapest, September 2009
2. Ben Jones, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff, and Xin Yao. Emerged optimal distribution of computational workload in the evolution of an undulatory animat. The 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviors (SAB 2010), August 24-28, 2010
3. Ben Jones, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff, and Xin Yao. The effect of proprioceptive feedback on the distribution of sensory information in a model of an undulating organism. 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, Budapest, September 2009
4. Ben Jones, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff, and Xin Yao. The evolutionary emergence of neural organization in a hydra-like animat. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Conference Abstract:Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.10.2009.14.057, 2009
5. Ben Jones, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff, and Xin Yao. Evolving functional symmetry in a three dimensional model of an elongated organism. Artificial Life XI, pp.305-312, 2008
6. Yaochu Jin, Lisa Schramm, and Bernhard Sendhoff. A gene regulatory model for the development of primitive nervous systems. INNS-NNN Symposia on Modeling the Brain and Nervous Systems, November 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, LNCS 5506, pp.48-55, 2009
7. Yan Meng, Yaochu Jin, Jun Yin, and Matthew Conforth. Human activity detection using spiking neural networks regulated by a gene regulatory network. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp.2232-2237, Barcelona, July 2010
8. Jun Yin, Yan Meng, Yaochu Jin. A developmental approach to reservoir computing. 2011 (Submitted)
9. Daniel Bush and Yaochu Jin. A unified computational model of the genetic regulatory networks underlying synaptic, intrinsic and homeostatic plasticity. 2011 International Conference on Wiring the Brain: Making Connections, April 12-15, 2011, County Wicklow, Ireland (oral presentation)

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