CS-DC'15: From Spikes to Cognitive Agents with Neural Assembly Computing
Channel: João Ranhel
Date: 2015-10-15

This video is a presentation at the CS-DC’15 World e-Conference. It shows our view on how spiking neural networks (SNN) with propagation delay process information. We call this approach Neural Assembly Computing (NAC). The video shows how NAC performs several logical functions, finite-state automata, and algorithms. In our view, interactive automata in nervous systems generate intelligent behavior. Due to the synaptic and neural plasticity, the neural automata undergo constant changes as the SNN pass through experiences. Such changes are responsible for agents to learn new skills and acquire new responses to their ‘repertoire’ during their lifetimes, which may be considered as ‘cognitive processes’.