ePoster · Computational Neuroscience
Soft-actor-critic for model-free reinforcement learning of eye saccade control
Henrique Granado,Akhil John,Reza Javanmard,John Van Opstal,Alexandre Bernardino · COSYNE 2022
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
Saccades are fast eye movements that change gaze direction in a ballistic fashion. Human saccadic behaviour has been studied extensively in neuroscience and several methods have been proposed to model the saccadic system. For example, John et al. (2021) adopted a model-based approach, based on a physical model of the eye plant (eyeball, extraocular muscles, and surrounding tissues). They used feedforward optimal-control principles to replicate human saccadic behaviour. Here, we adopted a model-free approach to study the question: “How to learn saccadic behaviours without prior knowledge of the