| Background |
| Humans
can modify their behaviors depending on the environment. This
ability is essential for surviving in fluctuating circumstances.
Our research started with attempting to understand various brain
mechanisms, including vision and motor systems, which support
the adaptive behavior changes. |
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| Goal |
| Our
long-term goal is to understand how human intelligence and
abilities of communication emerged from combination and hierarchical
organization of the above mechanisms. We want to know the
mechanisms to the extent that machines, either computer programs
or robots, could solve the same computational problems as
those that human brains solve, while using essentially the
same principles (i.e., a definition of "Computational
Neuroscience"). |
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| Methods |
| Our
research strategy is based on effective interactions between
computational theories and psychological experiments, including
non-invasive measurements of brain activity. Biological feasibility
of the theories is tested by the experiments, and phenomena
observed in the experiments are explained by the theories. |
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