Volume 10, Issue 5 (September & October 2019)
BCN 2019, 10(5): 443-450 |
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1- Faculty of Engineering Modern Technologies, Amol University of Special Modern Technologies, Amol, Iran.
2- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran.
2- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran.
Abstract:
One of the interesting topics in neuroscience is problem solving and decision-making. In this area, everything gets more complicated when events occur sequentially. One of the practical methods for handling the complexity of brain function is to create an empirical model. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is known as a powerful mathematical-based tool often used in industrial environments. We proposed an MPC and its algorithm as a part of the functionalities of the brain to improve the performance of the decision-making process. It is well known that the decision-making process results from communication between the prefrontal cortex (working memory) and hippocampus (long-term memory). However, there are other regions of the brain that play essential roles in making decisions, but their exact mechanisms of action still are unknown. In this study, we modeled those mechanisms with MPC. We showed that MPC controls the stream of data between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in a closed-loop system to correct actions.
Keywords: Decision-making process, Model predictive control, Memory structure, Prefrontal cortex, Hippocampus
Type of Study: Original |
Subject:
Computational Neuroscience
Received: 2019/05/13 | Accepted: 2019/08/17 | Published: 2019/09/1
Received: 2019/05/13 | Accepted: 2019/08/17 | Published: 2019/09/1
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