Objective Our objectives are:(1) to understand the neural mechanisms underlying fast target selection and sensory-guided decisions in humans in motion and(2) to transfer this knowledge into an artificial cognitive system for robotic navigation.We here foster a combined experimental and modelling approach that aims to reveal the mechanisms of visual cognition as they interact with processes of neural decision-making and attention selection. A critical new departure will be to evaluate and model performance for a moving observer. The project aims to integrate cognitive processes, such as decision-making, the relation between decision-making and learning, attention selection based on such decisions, and the coordination of sensory processes with selection processes in the moving participant.We will approach this question at five levels:1) We will study fast decisions, motion-based attention selection and scene interpretation in humans at the behavioural level as well as at the level of the underlying brain activity using neuro-imaging methods.2) We will focus on sensory and cognitive processes in animal models to investigate their role in fast neural processing in motion perception.3) We will develop neural network models that are constructed on the basis of the information obtained in the animal models and simulate them in order to demonstrate the key behavioural patterns.4) Deficits arising from brain damage will be explored in patients. We intend to determine the contribution of cortical areas as they contribute to whole-system behaviour in the estimation of self-motion and navigation. We apply these results to optimise behavioural monitoring with algorithms for extracting eye/head movements in the moving observer.5) The resulting models will endow artificial cognitive systems with the ability to interpret and act on data arising from real-world events.All five approaches will be integrated to form a new theory on decision-making in motion. Fields of science social sciencespsychologycognitive psychologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.8 - Cognitive Systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG Address Universitaetsstrasse 31 93053 Regensburg Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH SYSTEMS LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 80 riverside estate, sir thomas longley road ME2 4BH Rochester, kent See on map CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3, rue michel-ange 75794 Paris cedex 16 See on map FUNDACIO BARCELONA MEDIA UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Plaza de la merce 10-12 08002 Barcelona See on map KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nobels vaeg 5 171 77 Solna stockholm See on map KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kloveniersburgwal 29 1011 JV Amsterdam See on map SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Piazza martiri della liberta, 33 56127 Pisa See on map SPIKENET TECHNOLOGY SARL France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Prologue 1 la pyreneenne 31672 Labege See on map THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Edgbaston B15 2TT Birmingham See on map UNIVERSITAET ULM Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Albert-einstein-allee 5 89081 Ulm See on map
