RIKEN Center for Brain Science Brain Intelligence Theory Unit
Unit Leader: Takuya Isomura (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
The intelligence of biological organisms is explained by optimization. Biological organisms recognize the surrounding environment by optimizing their internal representations or hypotheses about how the hidden dynamics and causes generate sensory inputs—and they optimize their behavior to adapt to the environment by sampling preferred inputs, thereby increasing the probability of survival and reproduction. Our research aims to mathematically express universal characterization of their intelligence in terms of biologically plausible neuronal circuits and synaptic plasticity rules.
Main Research Fields
- Informatics
Related Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Informatics/Human informatics/Intelligent informatics
Keywords
- Learning theory
- Bayesian inference
- Neural network
- Computational neuroscience
- Free energy principle
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
Isomura, T., Parr, T. & Friston, K.:
"Bayesian filtering with multiple internal models – towards a theory of social intelligence."
Neural Computation 31:2390-2431 (2019). - 2.
Isomura, T. & Toyoizumi, T.:
"Multi-context blind source separation by error-gated Hebbian rule."
Scientific Reports 9:7127 (2019). - 3.
Isomura, T. & Friston, K.:
"In vitro neural networks minimise variational free energy."
Scientific Reports 8:16926 (2018). - 4.
Isomura, T. & Toyoizumi, T.:
"Error-gated Hebbian rule: a local learning rule for principal and independent component analysis."
Scientific Reports 8:1835 (2018). - 5.
Isomura, T. & Toyoizumi, T.:
"A local learning rule for independent component analysis."
Scientific Reports 6:28073 (2016). - 6.
*Isomura, T., Kotani, K. & Jimbo, Y.:
"Cultured cortical neurons can perform blind source separation according to the free-energy principle."
PLoS Computational Biology 11(12):e1004643 (2015).
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Takuya Isomura
- Unit Leader
Contact Information
N204, Brain Science Central Bldg.
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Email: takuya.isomura [at] riken.jp