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  • Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Modeling

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  • Affective empathy is crucial for social behavior and altruism.
  • Existing computational models often lack neuroscientific grounding.
  • Understanding the neural basis of empathy is key for artificial systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a biologically plausible computational model of affective empathy.
  • To simulate the neural mechanisms underlying empathy, including mirror neuron systems.
  • To enable artificial agents to exhibit empathetic and altruistic behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Constructed a novel brain-inspired affective empathy computational model.
  • Developed an Artificial Pain Model based on the Free Energy Principle.
  • Built an affective empathy spiking neural network (AE-SNN) simulating mirror neuron mechanisms and self-other differentiation.

Main Results:

  • The model successfully simulated pain generation and empathy.
  • The AE-SNN reproduced the emergence of mirror and anti-mirror neurons.
  • Intelligent agents demonstrated altruistic rescue behavior in a simulated task.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed model offers a more biologically plausible approach to artificial affective empathy.
  • This work pioneers the reproduction of mirror neuron emergence in SNNs.
  • The model holds significant potential for advancing social robotics and human-AI interaction.