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A Neuromorphic Architecture for Object Recognition and Motion Anticipation Using Burst-STDP 1. 2,3. 4 2 Andrew Nere , Umberto Olcese , David Balduzzi , Giulio Tononi * 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, 2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, 3 Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy, 4 Department of Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tubingen, Germany Abstract In this work we investigate the possibilities offered by a minimal framework of artificial spiking neurons to be deployed in silico. Here we introduce a hierarchical network architecture of spiking neurons which learns to recognize moving objects in a visual environment and determine the correct motor output for each object. These tasks are learned through both supervised and unsupervised spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). STDP is responsible for the strengthening (or weakening) of synapses in relation to pre- and post-synaptic spike times and has been described as a Hebbian paradigm taking place both in vitro and in vivo. We utilize a variation of STDP learning, called burst-STDP, which is based on the notion that, since spikes are expensive in terms of energy consumption, then strong bursting activity carries more information than single (sparse) spikes. Furthermore, this learning algorithm takes advantage of homeostatic renormalization, which has been hypothesized to promote memory consolidation during NREM sleep. Using this learning rule, we design a spiking neural network architecture capable of ob