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Original Research ARTICLE

On the interactions between top-down anticipation and bottom-up regression

¹ Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 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

Citation: Jun Tani (2007). On the interactions between top-down anticipation and bottom-up regression. Front. Neurorobot. 1:2. doi: 10.3389/neuro.12/002.2007

Received: 4 September 2007; Paper pending published: 8 October 2007;
Accepted: 11 October 2007; Published online: 2 November 2007.

Edited by:

Frederic Kaplan, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland

Reviewed by:

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
Pierre Andry, ETIS, University of Cergy Pontoise, France

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