INSPIRE Track 1: Action, Vision and Language, and their Brain Mechanisms in Evolutionary Relationship

该INSPIRE奖的部分资金来自社会、行为和经济科学理事会行为和认知科学部的感知、行动和认知项目，以及计算机和信息科学与工程理事会信息和智能系统部门的稳健智能项目。这项研究将解决并弥合两大挑战：(1)了解猕猴和人类最后共同祖先的大脑如何支持行动，感知和社会互动，补充类人猿的其他建模；(2)建立进化见解，以更好地理解人类大脑的不同部分如何在我们使用语言时协同工作。关键的切入点将是手语和口语，以及使用手势（例如猿的新颖手势）来传达意思。更进一步，一个特别的焦点将是连接大脑产生和识别行为的能力的系统，以及它们与其他大脑系统的相互作用。一个由语言学、灵长类学、神经解剖学、神经生理学和运动、认知和语言过程的神经计算建模领域的科学家组成的国际小组将汇集有关各种灵长类物种的解剖学、生理学、行为和交流的数据。为了支持这种扩展的协作，研究人员将建立一个新的在线协作环境（“协作实验室工作区”）来测试，做出预测，并挑战建模和实验。这种基础结构可以促进建模者、实验人员和临床医生之间的新型协作。这项研究也有可能支持对导致临床失用症和失语症的损伤进行建模。视觉、动作和语言模型的整合对于创造能够灵活有效地与个体互动的机器人和“神经形态建筑”也很重要，在“神经形态建筑”中，建筑物的传感器和动作系统可以自适应地调整以适应人类居民。

This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and the Robust Intelligence Program in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering.This research will address and bridge two grand challenges: (1) To understand how action, perception, and social interaction were supported by the brain of the last common ancestor of macaque and human, complementing modeling elsewhere on great apes, and (2) To build on evolutionary insights to better understand how different parts of the human brain work together when we use language. Key entry points will be signed and spoken languages and the use of hand gestures (e.g., novel hand gestures by apes) to convey meaning. Going further, a particular focus will be on systems that link the brain's capacities to generate as well as recognize actions, and their interactions with other brain systems. An international group of scientists in linguistics, primatology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurocomputational modeling of motor, cognitive and language processes will pool data on the anatomy, physiology, behavior and communication of the various primate species. To support this extended collaboration, the researchers will build a novel online collaborative environment ("Collaboratory Workspaces") to test, make predictions, and challenge both the modeling and experimentation. This infrastructure may catalyze a new style of collaboration between modelers, experimentalists, and clinicians. The research also has the potential to support modeling of the damage that results in the clinical disorders of apraxia and aphasia. Integration of models of vision, action and language is also important for creating robots that can flexibly and usefully interact with individual people and for "neuromorphic architecture," in which a building's sensors and action systems adaptively adjust to the human inhabitants.