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    "pk": 27739,
    "title": "Multifunctionality in embodied agents: Three levels of neural reuse",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The brain in conjunction with the body is able to adapt to new\nenvironments and perform multiple behaviors through reuse of\nneural resources and transfer of existing behavioral traits. Al-\nthough mechanisms that underlie this ability are not well un-\nderstood, they are largely attributed to neuromodulation. In\nthis work, we demonstrate that an agent can be multifunctional\nusing the same sensory and motor systems across behaviors,\nin the absence of modulatory mechanisms. Further, we lay out\nthe different levels at which neural reuse can occur through\na dynamical filtering of the brain-body-environment system’s\noperation: structural network, autonomous dynamics, and tran-\nsient dynamics. Notably, transient dynamics reuse could only\nbe explained by studying the brain-body-environment system\nas a whole and not just the brain. The multifunctional agent we\npresent here demonstrates neural reuse at all three levels.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "multifunctionality"
        },
        {
            "word": "neural reuse"
        },
        {
            "word": "Neural Networks"
        },
        {
            "word": "dynamical system theory"
        },
        {
            "word": "brain-body-environment systems"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fb1d1fv",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Madhavun",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Candadai",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Indiana University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Eduardo",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Izquierdo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Indiana University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}