Section: New Results

On the computational efficiency of Basal Ganglia models

Many valuable models have been proposed to capture the richness of the fundamental relations between the basal ganglia and prominent brain structures including the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus and the superior colliculus. To choose among them the mechanisms on which to build the design of the motor pole of our brain-inspired system, a fundamental issue is to evaluate the efficiency of these models in more realistic cases than the ones which are generally considered by the authors. For this reason, we are presently preparing a comparative study of models, including a model developed in our lab with neuroscientist colleagues [2] , in the more realistic case of large sensory and motor flows.