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Active shape discrimination with physical reservoir computers

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We present the first example of ‘minimally cognitive’ sensorimotor behaviour arising from a body as physical reservoir. By revisiting an experiment introduced by Beer (1996) and replacing the continuous-time recurrent neural network (CTRNN) therein with networks of mass-spring-dampers we demonstrate that bodies may be exploited for more than control and pattern generation and take over some tasks which were previously thought to require a central nervous system.

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  • Published

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Publisher

MIT Press

Page range

178-185

Pages

8.0

Book title

Artificial Life 14: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems

Place of publication

Cambridge, MA, USA

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Hiroki Sayama, René Doursat, Sebastian Risi, John Rieffel, Hod Lipson

Legacy Posted Date

2014-08-05

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-03-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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