A neuromorphic head direction cell system

Author

Massoud, Tarek M. ; Horiuchi, Timothy K.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 May 2009

Firstpage

565

Lastpage

568

Abstract

The head direction (HD) cell system in the brain of mammals is thought to be part of the neural circuitry supporting their spatial navigation capabilities. In this paper we present a neuromorphic VLSI system that mimics the operation of the HD system. Relying on spiking neurons and attractor dynamics, this system can be used to represent and retain the current estimate of head orientation in the environment and integrate angular velocity to update this estimate. The presented system is a first step towards more general odometry systems that could be used for modeling biological navigation systems.

Keywords

VLSI; biomedical electronics; attractor dynamics; biological navigation systems; mammal brains; neural circuitry; neuromorphic VLSI system; neuromorphic head direction cell system; odometry systems; spatial navigation capabilities; spiking neurons; Biological system modeling; Brain; Cognitive science; Educational institutions; High definition video; Navigation; Neuromorphics; Neurons; Neuroscience; Very large scale integration; Attractor dynamics; head direction; navigation; neuromorphic VLSI; spiking neurons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3827-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3828-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117811

Filename

5117811