Brain-Inspired Affective Empathy Computational Model and Its Application on Altruistic Rescue Task

doi:10.3389/fncom.2022.784967

	Brain-Inspired Affective Empathy Computational Model and Its Application on Altruistic Rescue Task
	Feng, Hui 1,2; Zeng, Yi1,2,3,4 ; Lu, Enmeng 1
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
	2022-07-18
卷号	16 页码:15
通讯作者	Zeng, Yi(yi.zeng@ia.ac.cn)
摘要	Affective empathy is an indispensable ability for humans and other species' harmonious social lives, motivating altruistic behavior, such as consolation and aid-giving. How to build an affective empathy computational model has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Most affective empathy models focus on the recognition and simulation of facial expressions or emotional speech of humans, namely Affective Computing. However, these studies lack the guidance of neural mechanisms of affective empathy. From a neuroscience perspective, affective empathy is formed gradually during the individual development process: experiencing own emotion-forming the corresponding Mirror Neuron System (MNS)-understanding the emotions of others through the mirror mechanism. Inspired by this neural mechanism, we constructed a brain-inspired affective empathy computational model, this model contains two submodels: (1) We designed an Artificial Pain Model inspired by the Free Energy Principle (FEP) to the simulate pain generation process in living organisms. (2) We build an affective empathy spiking neural network (AE-SNN) that simulates the mirror mechanism of MNS and has self-other differentiation ability. We apply the brain-inspired affective empathy computational model to the pain empathy and altruistic rescue task to achieve the rescue of companions by intelligent agents. To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first one to reproduce the emergence process of mirror neurons and anti-mirror neurons in the SNN field. Compared with traditional affective empathy computational models, our model is more biologically plausible, and it provides a new perspective for achieving artificial affective empathy, which has special potential for the social robots field in the future.
关键词	affective empathy mirror neuron system spiking neural network Artificial Pain altruistic behavior self-awareness
DOI	10.3389/fncom.2022.784967
关键词[WOS]	INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS ; NEURAL-NETWORK MODEL ; MIRROR NEURONS ; FACIAL EXPRESSION ; HUMANS ; MECHANISMS ; EMOTION ; NEUROSCIENCE ; EXECUTION ; IMITATION
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Mathematical & Computational Biology ; Neurosciences & Neurology
WOS类目	Mathematical & Computational Biology ; Neurosciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000891345500001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/50801
专题	脑图谱与类脑智能实验室_类脑认知计算
通讯作者	Zeng, Yi
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automat, Res Ctr Brain Inspired Intelligence, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Brain Sci & Intelligence Technol, Shanghai, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automat, Natl Lab Pattern Recognit, Beijing, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	类脑智能研究中心
通讯作者单位	类脑智能研究中心; 模式识别国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Feng, Hui,Zeng, Yi,Lu, Enmeng. Brain-Inspired Affective Empathy Computational Model and Its Application on Altruistic Rescue Task[J]. FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE,2022,16:15.
APA	Feng, Hui,Zeng, Yi,&Lu, Enmeng.(2022).Brain-Inspired Affective Empathy Computational Model and Its Application on Altruistic Rescue Task.FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE,16,15.
MLA	Feng, Hui,et al."Brain-Inspired Affective Empathy Computational Model and Its Application on Altruistic Rescue Task".FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE 16(2022):15.