[CompNeuro] 17.5., 11:15 - H. Kanazawa: The Embodied Brain Model for Understanding Early Human Development

[Matej Hoffmann]

Dear colleagues,

let me invite you to this seminar: 
http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/seminars/?event=1578

17.5., 11:15 at G205, Karlovo náměstí 13, Praha 2
Hoshinori Kanazawa, University of Tokyo
Title: Embodied Brain Model for Early Human Development

Abstract: Early human development has the nature of spontaneous 
exploration and boot-strap learning, leading to open-ended acquisition 
of complex and flexible motor behaviors. Despite accumulating evidence 
supporting the importance of sensorimotor experience in neurodevelopment 
as early as the fetal period, the early developmental mechanisms remain 
unclear. However, investigating causal links between sensorimotor 
experience and cortical learning is particularly challenging in human 
fetuses owing to technical and ethical difficulties. Therefore, 
computational approaches based on comprehensive biological data about 
the nervous system, body, and environment have been developed to probe 
mechanisms underlying early functional brain development. We have 
developed an embodied approach focusing on interactions among brain, 
body, and environment that offers opportunities to explore relations 
between functional neural development and sensorimotor experience.

Best regards,

Matej Hoffmann



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Matej Hoffmann, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo namesti 13
121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic
https://sites.google.com/site/matejhof/home
https://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/research/groups-teams/humanoids/
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