Section: New Results

Overview

This year we first explored two main loops of cerebral architecture, the limbic and motor loops, and their associated memory mechanisms. The limbic loop (cf. § 7.2) concerns the taking into account of the emotional and motivational aspects by the respondant and operant conditioning and their relations with the semantic and episodic memories. The motor loop (cf. § 7.3) considers the evolution of sensorimotor learning, from goal-directed behaviors to habitual behaviors.

We also began this year to study some characteristics of the systemic integration of our models (cf. § 7.4), raising the question of the conditions of autonomous learning and certain global characteristics such as neuromodulation.

Finally, we study the links between our bio-inspired modeling work and Machine Learning (cf. § 7.5), revisiting this latter domain in the light of the principles highlighted by our models.