Francesco Mannella
Email:
francesco.mannella@istc.cnr.it
Telephone:
+ 39 06 44595230
Fax:
+ 39 06 44595243
Address:
Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome - Italy
Profile
Position:
Research Fellow
Publications
Journal articles | |
| 2010 | |
Mirolli M., Mannella F., Baldassarre G. The roles of the amygdala in the affective regulation of body, brain and behaviour. In: Connection Science, vol. 22 (3) pp. 215 - 245. 2010.  | |
| 2007 | |
| Mannella F., Baldassarre G. A neural-network reinforcement-learning model of domestic chicks that learn to localise the centre of closed arenas. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, vol. 362 (1479) pp. 383 - 401. 2007. | |
| 2006 | |
| Mannella F., Baldassarre G. Punti di forza e di debolezza dei modelli di apprendimento per rinforzo: un'applicazione all'orientamento spaziale nei pulcini. In: Sistemi Intelligenti, vol. 18 (1) pp. 75 - 84. Il Mulino, 2006. | |
Contribution to Book/Monograph | |
| 2010 | |
| Mannella F., Mirolli M., Baldassarre G. The interplay of pavlovian and instrumental processes in devaluation experiments: a computational embodied neuroscience model tested with a simulated rat. In: Modelling Perception With Artificial Neural Networks. pp. 93 - 113. Tosh C. and Ruxton G (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. | |
| 2009 | |
| Baldassarre G., Mirolli M., Mannella F., Caligiore D., Visalberghi E., Natale F., Truppa V., Sabbatini G., Guglielmelli E., Keller F., Campolo D., Redgrave P., Gurney K., Stafford T., Triesh J., Weber C., Rothkopf C., Nehmzow U., Condell J., Siddique M., Lee M., Huelse M., Schmidhuber J., Gomez F., Foester A., Togelius J., Barto A. The IM-CLeVeR project: intrinsically motivated cumulative learning versatile robots. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob2009): Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. pp. 189 - 190. Canamero L., Oudeyer P. Y. , Balkenius C (eds.). (Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 146). Lund: Lund University, 2009. | |
| Koene A., Mannella F., Baldassarre G. Distal place recognition based navigation control inspired by hippocampus-amygdala interactions. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob2009). pp. 215 - 216. Canamero L., Oudeyer P. Y. , Balkenius C (eds.). (Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 146). Lund, Sweden: Lund University, 2009. | |
| Mannella F., Koene A., Baldassarre G. Navigation via Pavlovian conditioning: A robotic bio-constrained model of autoshaping in rats. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob2009). pp. 97 - 104. Canamero L., Oudeyer P. Y. , Balkenius C (eds.). (Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 146). Lund, Sweden: Lund University, 2009. | |
| 2008 | |
| Fiore V. G., Mannella F., Mirolli M., Gurney K., Baldassarre G. Instrumental conditioning driven by neutral stimuli: A model tested with a simulated robotic rat. In: Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics - Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. pp. 13 - 20. Schlesinger M., Berthouze L., Balkenius C (eds.). (Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 139). Lund, Sweden: Lund University, 2008. | |
| Mannella F., Mirolli M., Baldassarre G. Computational principles underlying the functioning of amygdala in the affective regulation of behaviour. In: The role of emotion in adaptive behaviour and cognitive robotics, SAB2008 Workshop. Low R., Morse A., Ziemke T (eds.). Skovde: University of Skovde, 2008. | |
| 2006 | |
| Ognibene D., Mannella F., Pezzulo G., Baldassarre G. Integrating reinforcement-learning, accumulator models and motor-primitives to study action selection and researching in monkeys. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM2006). pp. 214 - 219. Fum D., Del Missier F., Stocco A (eds.). Trieste: Edizioni Goliardiche, 2006. | |
Proceedings | |
| 2008 | |
Mannella F., Zappacosta S., Mirolli M., Baldassarre G. A computational model of the amygdala nuclei's role in second order conditioning. In: SAB 2008 - From Animals to Animats 10, 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008. Proceedings (Osaka, Japan, 7-12 July 2008). Proceedings, pp. 321 - 330. M. Asada, J. C.T. Hallam, J.-A. Meyer, J. Tani (eds.). (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5040). Springer, 2008.   | |
| 2007 | |
| Mannella F., Mirolli M., Baldassarre G. The role of amygdala in devaluation: a model tested with a simulated robot. In: EpiRob2007 - Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, 2007. Proceedings (Piscataway, NJ, 5-7 November 2007). Proceedings, pp. 77 - 84. L. Berthouze, C.G. Prince, M. Littman, H. Kozima, C. Balkenius (eds.). (Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 135). Lund University, 2007. | |
| 2006 | |
| Mannella F., Baldassarre G. Possible roles of orbitofrontal-amygdala loop in modulation of basal ganglia activation. In: WIVA3 - Terzo Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale (Siena, Italy, 13-15 Settembre 2006). Atti, Acerbi A., Giansante S., Marocco D (eds.). 2006. | |
| 2005 | |
| Mannella F., Baldassarre G. Alla ricerca del centro: un modello della navigazione nei pulcini. In: Secondo Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale (Roma, Italy, 2-5 Marzo 2005). Atti, Baldassarre G., Marocco D. Mirolli M (eds.). 2005. | |
Abstracts | |
| 2010 | |
| Fiore V. G., Mannella F., Mirolli M., Cabib S., Puglisi-Allegra S., Baldassarre G. A computational model of dopamine and norepinephrine dynamics in rats exposed to prolonged, inescapable stress. In: Neuroscience 2010 - 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, USA, 13-17 November 2010). Abstract, article n. 1. Society for Neuroscience, 2010. | |
| 2009 | |
| Fiore V. G., Mannella F., Mirolli M., Cabib S., Puglisi-Allegra S., Baldassarre G. A computational model of stress coping in rats. In: BCCN 2009 - Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience 2009 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 30 September - 2 October 2009). Abstract, article n. 1. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 2009. | |
| Mannella F., Mirolli M., Baldassarre G. A computational model of goal-driven behaviours and habits in rats. In: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 30 September - 2 October 2009). Abstract, article n. 1. Zhu J., Krieg D (eds.). Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology, 2009. | |