Habit learning and brain-machine interfaces (BMI): a tribute to Valentino Braitenberg's "Vehicles"
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Habit learning and brain-machine interfaces (BMI): a tribute to Valentino Braitenberg's "Vehicles". / Birbaumer, Niels; Hummel, Friedhelm.
in: BIOL CYBERN, Jahrgang 108, Nr. 5, 2014, S. 595-601.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Habit learning and brain-machine interfaces (BMI): a tribute to Valentino Braitenberg's "Vehicles"
AU - Birbaumer, Niels
AU - Hummel, Friedhelm
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) allow manipulation of external devices and computers directly with brain activity without involvement of overt motor actions. The neurophysiological principles of such robotic brain devices and BMIs follow Hebbian learning rules as described and realized by Valentino Braitenberg in his book "Vehicles," in the concept of a "thought pump" residing in subcortical basal ganglia structures. We describe here the application of BMIs for brain communication in totally locked-in patients and argue that the thought pump may extinguish-at least partially-in those people because of extinction of instrumentally learned cognitive responses and brain responses. We show that Pavlovian semantic conditioning may allow brain communication even in the completely paralyzed who does not show response-effect contingencies. Principles of skill learning and habit acquisition as formulated by Braitenberg are the building blocks of BMIs and neuroprostheses.
AB - Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) allow manipulation of external devices and computers directly with brain activity without involvement of overt motor actions. The neurophysiological principles of such robotic brain devices and BMIs follow Hebbian learning rules as described and realized by Valentino Braitenberg in his book "Vehicles," in the concept of a "thought pump" residing in subcortical basal ganglia structures. We describe here the application of BMIs for brain communication in totally locked-in patients and argue that the thought pump may extinguish-at least partially-in those people because of extinction of instrumentally learned cognitive responses and brain responses. We show that Pavlovian semantic conditioning may allow brain communication even in the completely paralyzed who does not show response-effect contingencies. Principles of skill learning and habit acquisition as formulated by Braitenberg are the building blocks of BMIs and neuroprostheses.
U2 - 10.1007/s00422-014-0595-5
DO - 10.1007/s00422-014-0595-5
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 24664526
VL - 108
SP - 595
EP - 601
JO - BIOL CYBERN
JF - BIOL CYBERN
SN - 0340-1200
IS - 5
ER -