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Gianluca Baldassarre
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Keywords of my scientific and technological
interests
(Inter)disciplinary context: computational embodied neuroscience, psychology, neuroscience, developmental
robotics, artificial life, machine learning.
Complex systems: non-linear dynamical systems, self-organisation, emergence,
information theory, entropy.
Computational models: (a) neural networks (feed-forward, recurrent, dynamical; firing-rate
neurons, leaky neurons); (b) reinforcement learning (actor-critic); (c) unsupervised
learning (Kohonen-like); (d) supervised learning (Hebb based); (e) genetic
algorithms (as models of evolution).
Brain: (a) visual
cortex, visual ventral-cortical pathways (e.g., inferotemporal cortex) and
visual dorsal-cortical pathways (e.g., parietal cortex); (b) supplementary premotor
cortex, premotor cortex, motor cortex, muscles, dynamics and kinematics of
limbs; (c) hypothalamus, amygdala, basal ganglia, hippocampus, orbitofrontal
cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, dorsal prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex;
neuromodulators, dopamine, norepinephrine (noradrenaline), serotonine (5-HT), acetylcholine,
oppioids.
Behaviour: (a)
eye-arm-hand coordination, reaching, grasping, action hierarchy and
compositionality, motor babbling, learning of affordances, eye-control, active
vision, attention; (b) child development of sensorimotor skills,
curiosity-driven learning, novelty detection, focussing on zone of proximal
development; (c) motivation, affective regulation of body brain learning and
behaviour, classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, second-order
conditioning, devaluation, PIT.
Non-orthodox economics: neuro-economics, behavioural economics, agent-based simulations, policy
making, market economy, efficiency, GDP distribution, cooperative and
competitive behaviours, human nature, well-being, happiness.
Sections of this web-site
LOCEN – Laboratory of Computational Embodied
Neuroscience
Curriculum
Vitae in English, pdf
Demos of some of my works (explanations, pictures, films
of simulations, robots, etc.)