From Animals to Robots and Back: Reflections on Hard Problems in the Study of Cognition
A Collection in Honour of Aaron Sloman
Editors: Wyatt, Jeremy L., Petters, Dean, Hogg, David (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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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.
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Bringing Together Different Pieces to Better Understand Whole Minds
Pages 1-7
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Aaron Sloman: A Bright Tile in AI’s Mosaic
Pages 9-30
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Losing Control Within the H-Cogaff Architecture
Pages 31-50
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Acting on the World: Understanding How Agents Use Information to Guide Their Action
Pages 51-64
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A Proof and Some Representations
Pages 65-73
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- 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
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- Jeremy L. Wyatt
- Dean Petters
- David Hogg
- Series Title
- Cognitive Systems Monographs
- Series Volume
- 22
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-06614-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-06614-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-06613-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-37628-8
- Series ISSN
- 1867-4925
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 258
- Number of Illustrations
- 17 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
- Topics