Embodied Cognition and Robotics

A few relevant publications

Sporns O (2010) Brain networks and embodiment. In: Mind in Context, Mesquita B, Feldman Barrett L, Smith ER, eds., pp. 42-64, New York: Guilford Press.

Sporns O (2009) From complex networks to intelligent systems. In: Creating Brain-Like Intelligence, Sendhoff, B et al. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp 15-30, Springer, Berlin.

Pfeifer, R, Lungarella, M, Sporns O (2008) The synthetic approach to embodied cognition: A primer. Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach, Calvo, O and Gomila, A, (eds), pp. 121-137, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Polani, D., Sporns, O., Lungarella, M. (2007) How information and embodiment shape intelligent information processing. In: Lungarella, M, Iida, F, Bongard, J., Pfeifer, R, (eds), 50 Years of AI, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4850, pp 99-111, Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Sporns, O. (2007) What neuro-robotic models can tell us about neural and cognitive development. In: “Neuroconstructivism: Perspectives and Prospects”, pp. 179-204, Mareschal, D., Sirois, S., Westermann, G. & Johnson, M.H., eds., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Sporns, O., Karnowski, J., and Lungarella, M. (2006) Mapping causal relations in sensorimotor networks. Proc. ICDL 2006.

Sporns, O. and Lungarella, M. 2006. Evolving coordinated behavior by maximizing information structure. In Rocha, L.M., Yager, L.S., Bedeau, M.A., Floreano, D., Goldstone, R.L., and Vespigniani, A. (eds.) Artificial Life X. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 323-329, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Seth, A., Sporns, O. and Krichmar, J. (2005) Neurorobotic models in neuroscience and neuroinformatics.  Neuroinformatics 3, 167-170.

Lungarella, M., Pegors, T., Bulwinkle, D., and Sporns, O. (2005) Methods for quantifying the informational structure of sensory and motor data.  Neuroinformatics 3, 243-262.

Sporns, O. (2005) Toward neural robotics: From synthetic models to neuromimetic implementations. In: Reeke, G.N., Poznanski, R.R., Lindsay, K.A., Rosenberg, J.R. and Sporns, O. (eds.) Modeling in the Neurosciences. From Biological Systems to Neuromimetic Robotics, 2nd edition, pp. 639-646, CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Alexander, W.H., and Sporns, O. (2004) Interactions of environment, behavior, and synaptic patterns in a neuro-robotic model.  In: From Animals to Animats 8, Proceedings SAB 2004, Schaal, S, Ijspeert, A., Billard, A., Vijayakumar, S., Hallam, J., and Meyer, J.-A. (eds.), pp.13-22, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sporns, O., and Alexander, W.H. (2003) Neuromodulation in a learning robot: interactions between neural plasticity and behavior. Proceedings IJCNN 2003, 2789-2794. 

Sporns, O. (2002) Embodied Cognition.  In: MIT Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. Arbib, Ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sporns, O., and Alexander, W.H. (2002) Neuromodulation and plasticity in an autonomous robot.  Neural Networks.

Sporns, O., and Alexander, W.H. (2002) Dopamine, reward conditioning, and robot behavior.  ICDL02.

Alexander, W.H., and Sporns, O. (2002) Timed delivery of reward signals in an autonomous robot.  In: Animals to Animats 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 195-204, Hallam, B., Floreano, D., Hallam, J., Hayes, G. and Meyer, J.-A. (Editors), MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Weng, J., McClelland, J., Pentland, A., Sporns, O., Stockman, I., Sur, M., Thelen, E. (2001) Autonomous mental development by robots and animals.  Science 291:599-600.