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From Animals to Robots and Back: Reflections on Hard Problems in the Study of Cognition

A Collection in Honour of Aaron Sloman

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Editors:
  1. Jeremy L. Wyatt

    1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  2. Dean D. Petters

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of Northampton, Northampton, United Kingdom

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  3. David C. Hogg

    1. School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  • A unique selection of cross-disciplinary papers focusing on problems and solutions of cognition in natural and artificial systems
  • Integrative and wide ranging architectural view of cognition as relevant to researchers in natural as to those in artificial cognition
  • Addresses hot topics and contrasting views on contemporary debates in cognition with key issues addressed from different perspectives and levels of abstraction
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 22)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Bringing Together Different Pieces to Better Understand Whole Minds

    • Dean Petters
    Pages 1-7

  3. Aaron Sloman: A Bright Tile in AI’s Mosaic

    • Margaret A. Boden
    Pages 9-30

  4. Losing Control Within the H-Cogaff Architecture

    • Dean Petters
    Pages 31-50

  5. Acting on the World: Understanding How Agents Use Information to Guide Their Action

    • Jackie Chappell
    Pages 51-64

  6. A Proof and Some Representations

    • Manfred Kerber
    Pages 65-73

  7. What Does It Mean to Have an Architecture?

    • Brian Logan
    Pages 75-88

  8. Virtual Machines: Nonreductionist Bridges Between the Functional and the Physical

    • Matthias Scheutz
    Pages 89-105

  9. Building for the Future: Architectures for the Next Generation of Intelligent Robots

    • Nick Hawes
    Pages 107-118

  10. What Vision Can, Can’t and Should Do

    • Michael Zillich
    Pages 119-131

  11. The Rocky Road from Hume to Kant: Correlations and Theories in Robots and Animals

    • Jeremy L. Wyatt
    Pages 133-149

  12. Combining Planning and Action, Lessons from Robots and the Natural World

    • Jeremy Baxter
    Pages 151-160

  13. Developing Expertise with Objective Knowledge: Motive Generators and Productive Practice

    • Luc P. Beaudoin
    Pages 161-189

  14. From Cognitive Science to Data Mining: The First Intelligence Amplifier

    • Tom Khabaza
    Pages 191-204

  15. Modelling User Linguistic Communicative Competences for Individual and Collaborative Learning

    • Timothy Read, Elena Bárcena
    Pages 205-218

  16. Loop-Closing Semantics

    • Ian Wright
    Pages 219-253

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 255-258
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About this book

Cognitive Science is a discipline that brings together research in natural and artificial systems and this is clearly reflected in the diverse contributions to From Animals to Robots and Back.

In tribute to Aaron Sloman and his pioneering work in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, the editors have collected a unique collection of cross-disciplinary papers that include work on:

·        intelligent robotics;

·        philosophy of cognitive science;

·        emotional research

·        computational vision;

·        comparative psychology; and

·        human-computer interaction.

Key themes such as the importance of taking an architectural view in approaching cognition, run through the text. Drawing on the expertize of leading international researchers, contemporary debates in the study of natural and artificial cognition are addressed from complementary and contrasting perspectives with key issues being outlined at various levels of abstraction.

From Animals to Robots and Back, will give readers with backgrounds in the study of both natural and artificial cognition an important window on the state of the art in cognitive systems research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Jeremy L. Wyatt

  • School of Social Sciences, University of Northampton, Northampton, United Kingdom

    Dean D. Petters

  • School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    David C. Hogg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Animals to Robots and Back: Reflections on Hard Problems in the Study of Cognition

  • Book Subtitle: A Collection in Honour of Aaron Sloman

  • Editors: Jeremy L. Wyatt, Dean D. Petters, David C. Hogg

  • Series Title: Cognitive Systems Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06614-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06613-4Published: 30 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37628-8Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06614-1Published: 10 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1867-4925

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-4933

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 258

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Robotics and Automation

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