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ReviewFrontiers in neurorobotics2020

Neurorobots as a Means Toward Neuroethology and Explainable AI.

Kexin Chen, Tiffany Hwu, Hirak J Kashyap, Jeffrey L Krichmar, Kenneth Stewart, Jinwei Xing, Xinyun Zou

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Review in Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. When neuro-robots go wrong: A review.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2023
    Review
  3. Linking global top-down views to first-person views in the brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
    Article
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Kexin ChenDepartment of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Tiffany HwuHRL Laboratories (formerly Hughes Research Laboratory), LLC, Malibu, CA, United States.
Hirak J KashyapDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Jeffrey L KrichmarDepartment of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Kenneth StewartDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Jinwei XingDepartment of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Xinyun ZouDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding why deep neural networks and machine learning algorithms act as they do is a difficult endeavor. Neuroscientists are faced with similar problems. One way biologists address this issue is by closely observing behavior while recording neurons or manipulating brain circuits. This has been called neuroethology. In a similar way, neurorobotics can be used to explain how neural network activity leads to behavior. In real world settings, neurorobots have been shown to perform behaviors analogous to animals. Moreover, a neuroroboticist has total control over the network, and by analyzing different neural groups or studying the effect of network perturbations (e.g., simulated lesions), they may be able to explain how the robot's behavior arises from artificial brain activity. In this paper, we review neurorobot experiments by focusing on how the robot's behavior leads to a qualitative and quantitative explanation of neural activity, and vice versa, that is, how neural activity leads to behavior. We suggest that using neurorobots as a form of computational neuroethology can be a powerful methodology for understanding neuroscience, as well as for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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embodimentexplainable artificial intelligenceinterpretabilityneuroethologyneurorobotics

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PMID33192435
PMCPMC7604467

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