STUDYING THE MECHANISMS OF THE SOMATIC MARKER HYPOTHESIS IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS (SNN)

General information

Authors:
Alejandro JIMÉNEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, Luis Fernando CASTILLO, Manuel GONZÁLEZ

DOI:
10.14201/ADCAIJ2012123542

Volume:
Regular Issue 1 (2), 2012

Keywords:

Somatic Marker Hypothesis; Spiking Neural Networks; Decision Making; Emotions

In this paper, a mechanism of emotional bias in decision making is studied using Spiking Neural Networks to simulate the associative and recurrent networks involved. The results obtained are along the lines of those proposed by A. Damasio as part of the Somatic Marker Hypothesis, in particular, that, in absence of emotional input, the decision making is driven by the rational input alone. Appropriate representations for the Objective and Emotional Values are also suggested, provided a spike representation (code) of the information.

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