Progress Report, Sept 2005

Alan H. Bond

Informatics Group, Center for Cognitive Phenomics, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA

• Overview
  • Overview of the talk
• Working memory
  • Working memory
  • Spatial working memory
    • Rowe et al's findings
• My brain model
  • Correspondence of initial model to neocortical areas
    • Neural areas and notation used
    • Strategy for modeling the brain
    • Functional involvements of cortical areas
    • Areas and connectivity
    • How my model implements the biological basis
    • My initial system model
    • The structure of a brain module
  • Descriptions and rules
    • Grooming
    • Instantaneous state of the model
    • Predicted brain area activation patterns for different kinds of processing
    • Perception-action hierarchies
    • Model mechanisms
    • Viable states
    • Lessons learned
    • The BAD language
• Modeling spatial working memory
  • System diagram
  • Modeling mental images
  • Episodic memory
    • Cortico-hippocampal connections
    • Structure of episodes
  • The planning mechanism
  • Plan representations
  • Executing plans
  • Plan phases
  • Goals
• The behavior of the model
  • Spatial working memory
  • What happens in phase 1
  • What happens in phase 2
  • What happens in phase 3
  • What happens in phase 4
    • Changing episodes
  • MRI prediction for the fixate phase
  • MRI prediction for the note image phase
  • MRI prediction for the maintain image phase
  • MRI prediction for the move hand phase
  • Attempt at 3D rendering
• Breaking the system
  • Logical diagram of data dependencies
    • Systematic analysis of system breaking
• Degrading the system
  • The energy function
  • Time course of energy consumption
  • Energy consumption for 0.5 second experiment
  • Energy consumption for 7 second experiment
• Conclusions
  • Brain modeling and cognitive phenomics
  • Conclusions
  
  
  
  Alan Bond
  2005-09-18