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Visuomotor Coordination - Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Visuomotor Coordination - Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Various brain areas of mammals can phyletically be traced back to
homologous structures in amphibians. The amphibian brain may thus
be regarded as a kind of "microcosm" of the highly complex primate
brain, as far as certain homologous structures, sensory functions,
and assigned ballistic (pre-planned and pre-pro grammed) motor and
behavioral processes are concerned. A variety of fundamental
operations that underlie perception, cognition, sensorimotor
transformation and its modulation appear to proceed in primate's
brain in a way understandable in terms of basic principles which
can be investigated more easily by experiments in amphibians. We
have learned that progress in the quantitative description and
evaluation of these principles can be obtained with guidance from
theory. Modeling - supported by simulation - is a process of
transforming abstract theory derived from data into testable
structures. Where empirical data are lacking or are difficult to
obtain because of structural constraints, the modeler makes
assumptions and approximations that, by themselves, are a source of
hypotheses. If a neural model is then tied to empirical data, it
can be used to predict results and hence again to become subject to
experimental tests whose resulting data in tum will lead to further
improvements of the model. By means of our present models of
visuomotor coordination and its modulation by state-dependent
inputs, we are just beginning to simulate and analyze how external
information is represented within different brain structures and
how these structures use these operations to control adaptive
behavior.
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