Sequential Analysis of Automatic Target Detection with Classification Algorithms and Optimality of Dynamic Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Abstract

Applied novel mathematical techniques to a published data-set (Roitman and Shadlen, 2002) on LIP neuronal activities during a random-dot motion discrimination paradigm to identify/classify individual neurons in terms of their sensori-motor locus and the putative decisional process that translates a perceptual to a motor representation. Developed a Signal-Detection-Theory based analysis providing a quantitative measure of sensorimotor locus of the neuron at each time point, and a Poisson regression model incorporating orthogonal decomposition of neuronal activity in term of how the stimulus, response, and stimulus-response mapping components contribute to the spike activity. Developed techniques to extract S-, R-, or SR mapping components in neural recordings of time series, e.g. event-related potentials (ERPs) where trial-by-trial variations in response-time have contaminated their contributions in averaged waveforms. Modeled motivational impact ( incentive salience ) in reinforcement learning, a standard paradigm for sequential decision making.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA578207

Entities

People

  • Jun Zhang

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Biological Sciences
  • Brain
  • Classification
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Game Theory
  • Motivation
  • Psychological Theory
  • Psychology
  • Sequential Analysis
  • Target Detection
  • Target Recognition
  • Waveforms

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference