What Is Working Memory and Mental Imagery? A Robot that Learns to Perform Mental Computations

Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

31 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

This paper goes back to Turing (1936) and treats his machine as a cognitive model (W,D,B), where W is an "external world" represented by memory device (the tape divided into squares), and (D,B) is a simple robot that consists of the sensory-motor devices, D, and the brain, B. The robot's sensory-motor devices (the "eye", the "hand", and the "organ of speech") allow the robot to simulate the work of any Turing machine. The robot simulates the internal states of a Turing machine by "talking to itself." At the stage of training, the teacher forces the robot (by acting directly on its motor centers) to perform several examples of an algorithm with different input data presented on tape. Two effects are achieved: 1) The robot learns to perform the shown algorithm with any input data using the tape. 2) The robot learns to perform the algorithm "mentally" using an "imaginary tape." The model illustrates the simplest concept of a universal learning neurocomputer, demonstrates universality of associative learning as the mechanism of programming, and provides a simplified, but nontrivial neurobiologically plausible explanation of the phenomena of working memory and mental imagery. The model is implemented as a user-friendly program for Windows called EROBOT. The program is available at www.brain0.com/software.html.

No associations

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for scientists and scientific papers. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

What Is Working Memory and Mental Imagery? A Robot that Learns to Perform Mental Computations does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with What Is Working Memory and Mental Imagery? A Robot that Learns to Perform Mental Computations, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and What Is Working Memory and Mental Imagery? A Robot that Learns to Perform Mental Computations will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-47575

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.