Hormonal computing

This paper provides a conceptual roadmap for the use of hormonal bioinspired models in a broad range of AI, neuroengineering, or computational systems. The functional signaling nature of hormones provides an example of a reliable multidimensional information management system that can solve parallel...

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Authors: Vallverdú, Jordi|||0000-0001-9975-7780; Talanov, Max|||0000-0002-6727-0983; Leukhin, Alexey|||0000-0001-5853-8768; Fatykhova, Elsa; Erokhin, Victor
Format: Article
Publication date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:299055
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/299055
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3389/fchem.2023.1232949
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Bioinspiration
Hormonal computing
Hormones
Programming
Sensors
Signaling
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Summary:This paper provides a conceptual roadmap for the use of hormonal bioinspired models in a broad range of AI, neuroengineering, or computational systems. The functional signaling nature of hormones provides an example of a reliable multidimensional information management system that can solve parallel multitasks. Two existing examples of hormonal computing bioinspired possibilities are shortly reviewed, and two novel approaches are introduced, with a special emphasis on what researchers propose as hormonal computing for neurorehabilitation in patients with complete spinal cord injuries. They extend the use of epidural electrical stimulation (EES) by applying sequential stimulations to limbs through prostheses. The prostheses include various limb models and are connected to a neurostimulation bus called the central pattern generator (CPG). The CPG bus utilizes hormonal computing principles to coordinate the stimulation of the spinal cord and muscles.