Original Research Article
On the interactions between top-down anticipation and bottom-up regression
Jun Tani *
Brain Science Institute, Japan
This paper discusses the importance of anticipation and regression in modeling cognitive behavior. The meanings of these cognitive functions are explained by describing our proposed neural network model which has been implemented on a set of cognitive robotics experiments. The reviews of these experiments suggest that the essences of embodied cognition may reside in the phenomena of the break-down between the top-down anticipation and the bottom-up regression and in its recovery process.
Keywords: top-down, bottom-up, self-organization, mirror neurons, dynamical systems, RNN
Copyright: © 2007 Tani. This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
*Correspondence: Jun Tani, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. Phone: +81-48-467-6467, Fax: +81-48-467-7248. e-mail: tani@brain.riken.go.jp
Citation: Tani J (2007) On the interactions between top-down anticipation and bottom-up regression. Front. Neurorobot. (2007) 1:2. doi:10.3389/neuro.12.002.2007
Received: 04 September 2007; paper pending published: 08 October 2007; accepted: 11 October 2007; published online: 02 November 2007.
Edited by:
Frederic Kaplan, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland
Reviewed by:
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
Pierre Andry, University of cergy pontoise, France
Pierre Andry, University of cergy pontoise, France
*Correspondence: Jun Tani, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. Phone: +81-48-467-6467, Fax: +81-48-467-7248. e-mail: tani@brain.riken.go.jp
