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Action Representation in Patients with Bilateral Vestibular Impairments
2011
During mental actions subjects feel themselves performing a movement without any corresponding motor output. Although broad information is available regarding the influence of central lesions on action representation, little is known about how peripheral damages affect mental events. In the current study, we investigated whether lack of vestibular information influences action representation. Twelve healthy adults and twelve patients with bilateral vestibular damage actually performed and mentally simulated walking and drawing. The locomotor paths implied one (first walking task) and four (second walking task) changes in the walking direction. In the drawing task, participants drew on a she…
A “Noise Gene” for Econets
1993
Genetically controlled noise is applied to the weights of neural networks trained with a genetic algorithm. Networks simulate simple organisms living in an environment Reproduction is based on the ability of each network, during its life, to respond to sensory information from the environment with appropriate motor action. Each network has an amount of noise which is genetically inherited (in the ‘noise gene’) with mutations and it varies interindividually. Noise modifies the value of a weight differently for each spreading of the activation through the network. Such noise has a positive effect on the evolutionary increase in fitness and it makes fitness less dependent on the initial choice…