Parallel Processing and Learning in Simple Systems
Abstract
Work over the three-year tenure of this grant has dealt with interrelated studies of 1) neuropharmacology, 2) behavior, and 3) distributed/ parallel processing in the generation of variable motor patterns in the buccal- oral system of the sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica. 4) Computer simulations of simple neutral networks have been undertaken to examine neurointegrative principles that could not be examined in biological preparations. The simulation work has set the basis for further simulations dealing with networks having characteristics relating to real neurons. All of the work has had the goal of developing interdisciplinary tools for understanding the 'scale-independent' problem of how individuals, each possessing only local knowledge of group activity, act within a group to produce different and variable adaptive outputs, and, in turn, of how the group influences the activity of the individual. The pharmacologic studies have had the goal of developing biochemical tools with which to identify groups of neurons that perform specific tasks during the production of a given behavior but are multifunctional by being critically involved in generating several different behaviors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 15, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA210225
Entities
People
- George J. Mpitsos
Organizations
- Oregon State University