Psychology Seminar - Modeling Spatial Behavior

Final Student Projects:

Anat Katz-Klumel and Sagi Schliesser- Simulation of Learning and Relearning in a T-Maze  (Word Document 230K- Hebrew)

Itai Fonio and Ehud Fonio - Open Field Exploratory Behavior   Abstract  (Word Document 250K- English)  (Code - Zip file 340K)

Shachar Radin, Ami Hauptman and Vladimir - Exploratory Behavior of Rats: A Computational Model  (Word Document 240K- Hebrew)

Naphtali Buderham and Hanan Lifshitz - Open Field Behavior in a Rat: A Computer Simulation   Abstract  (Word Document 244K- English)  (Code - Zip file 5K)

 

Seminar outline for second semester:

Week 1 - Talk by Haken in Yuval's seminar (Monday evening in Habayit Hayarok)

Week 2 - Group meetings

Week 3 - Prof. Ilan Golani + Prof. Matti Mintz - Q&A about Rats

Week 4 - Yael Niv - Evolving optimal Reinforcement Learning rules in a Foraging Bee

Week 5 + 6 - midsemester presentations of projects - What has already been done and what you plan next

Week 7 - Group meetings

Week 8 - Prof. Hezy Yeshurun - Computational models and Cortical anatomy of the Visual System

Week 9 -

Week 10 -

Week 11+12 - final presentations of your projects
 

For your use - David Touretzky's Matlab tutorial can be found at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Tutorials/

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8.12.99 - Talks to be given:

1. Ehud + Itay - Designing and Understanding Adaptive Group Behavior / Maja J.  Mataric
2. Ami - Cognitive Models of Spatial Navigation from a Robot Builder's Perspective / Gordon Wyeth and Brett Browning
3. Naphtali + Hanan - Affordances, Motivations, and the World Graph Theory / Alex Guazzelli, Mihail Bota, Fernando J. Corbacho, and Michael A. Arbib

15.12.99 - Talks to be given:

1. Orit + Nimrod - Robust Spatial Navigation in a Robot Inspired by Chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans / Thomas M. Morse, Shawn R. Lockery, and Thomas C. Ferrée
2. Anat + Sagi - Ecological Robotics / Andrew P. Duchon, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, and William H. Warren

Shachar + Barak - Operant Conditioning in Skinnerbots / David S. Touretzky and Lisa M. Saksida

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These are the papers for the student talks. Other papers are welcome, subject to my approval.
Please choose a paper and send me your choice by 25.11.99

All the papers are from  Adaptive Behavior Journal  (Links are to the abstracts of the papers)

Designing and Understanding Adaptive Group Behavior / Maja J. Mataric
Adaptive Behavior 1995 Vol 4(1) 51-80(Ehud + Itay)

Spatial Representation for Navigation in Animats / Tony J. Prescott
Adaptive Behavior 1995 Vol 4(2) 85-123

Adaptive Control of Odor-Guided Locomotion: Behavioral Flexibility as an Antidote to Environmental Unpredictability / Jim H. Belanger,
Mark A. Willis
Adaptive Behavior 1996 Vol 4(3/4) 217-253

Operant Conditioning in Skinnerbots / David S. Touretzky and Lisa M. Saksida
Adaptive Behavior 1997 Vol 5(3/4) 219-247(Shachar + Barak)

Robust Spatial Navigation in a Robot Inspired by Chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans / Thomas M. Morse, Shawn R. Lockery, and Thomas C. Ferrée
Adaptive Behavior 1998 Vol 6(3/4) 393-410(Orit + Nimrod)

Ecological Robotics / Andrew P. Duchon, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, and William H. Warren
Adaptive Behavior 1998 Vol 6(3/4) 473-507(Anat + Sagi)

Cognitive Models of Spatial Navigation from a Robot Builder's Perspective / Gordon Wyeth and Brett Browning
Adaptive Behavior 1998 Vol 6(3/4) 509-534(Ami)

Affordances, Motivations, and the World Graph Theory / Alex Guazzelli, Mihail Bota, Fernando J. Corbacho, and Michael A. Arbib
 Adaptive Behavior 1998 Vol 6(3/4) 435-473(Naphtali + Hanan)

Making Predictions in an Uncertain World: Environmental Structure and Cognitive Maps / E. Chown
Adaptive Behavior 1999 Vol 7(1)17-33 (sorry - no abstract here)

Insect-Inspired Robot Homing / K. Weber, S. Vekatesh, and M. Srinivasan
Adaptive Behavior 1999 Vol 7(1)65-97 (sorry - no abstract here)

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