Publications from 2008

 

Journals

2010

• MacLeod N., Benfield M. & Culverhouse P. (2010). Time to automate identification, Nature, 467, pp. 154-155.
• Belpaeme, Tony and Morse, Anthony (2010) Time will tell - why it is too early to worry. Commentary to Sharkey, N. & Sharkey, A. Interaction Studies, 11(2):191-195
• Cangelosi A. (2010). Grounding Language in Action and Perception: From Cognitive Agents to Humanoid Robots. Physics of Life Reviews, 7(2), 139-151,
• Cangelosi A. (in press). Solutions and open challenges for the symbol grounding problem. International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems. (with commentaries)
• Cangelosi A. (2010). The symbol grounding problems has been solved: Or maybe not? Autonomous Mental Development Newsletter, 7(1): 2-10. (online version) (target column with commentaries)
• Cangelosi A. (2010). Connectionist modelling of music emotions: Commentary on Perlovsky. Physics of Life Reviews, 7, 37-38.
• Coventry K.R., Cangelosi A., Newstead S.N., Bugmann D. (in press). Talking about quantities in space: Vague quantifiers, context and similarity. Language and Cognition.
• Cangelosi A., Metta G., Sagerer G., Nolfi S., Nehaniv C.L., Fischer K., Tani J., Belpaeme B., Sandini G., Fadiga L., Wrede B., Rohlfing K., Tuci E., Dautenhahn K., Saunders J., Zeschel A. (in press). Integration of action and language knowledge: A roadmap for developmental robotics. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
• Coventry K.R., Cangelosi A., Newstead S.N., Bugmann D. (in press). Talking about quantities in space: Vague quantifiers, context and similarity. Language and Cognition.
• Coventry K.R, Lynott L., Cangelosi A., Monrouxe L., Joyce D., Richardson D.C. (2010). Spatial language, visual attention, and perceptual simulation. Brain and Language, 112, 202–213
• Fontanari J. F., Cangelosi A. (in press). Cross-situational and supervised learning in the emergence of communication. Interaction Studies
• Lanyon, L.L., Denham, S.L. (2010). ‘Modelling Visual Neglect: Computational Insights into Conscious Perception’, PLoS One, Volume 5 | Issue 6 | e11128.
• Li Y., C. Yang, S. S. Ge, and T. H. Lee (2010). Adaptive Output Feedback NN Control of a Class of Discrete-Time MIMO Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Control Directions, IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, no.9
• Marocco D., Cangelosi A., Fischer K., Belpaeme T. (2010). Grounding action words in the sensorimotor interaction with the world: Experiments with a simulated iCub humanoid robot. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 4:7
• Mill, R.; Coath, M.; Wennekers, T. and Denham, S. (in press). Abstract stimulus-specific adaptation models, Neural Computation
• Morse A.F., de Greeff J., Belpaeme T., Cangelosi A. (in press). Epigenetic robotics architecture (ERA). IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
• Somerville J., Stuart L., Sernagor E. and Borisyuk R. (2010). iRaster: a novel Information Visualization tool to explore spatiotemporal patterns in multiple spike trains. Journal of Neuroscience Methods
• Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A., Metta G. (in press). Language understanding in humanoid robots: iCub simulation experiments. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
• Yang C., Y. Li, S. S. Ge and T. H. Lee, (2010). Adaptive Control of a Class of Discrete-Time MIMO Nonlinear Systems with Uncertain Couplings, International Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 10, pp.2020–2133

2009

• Ballaguer-Ballester, E., Clark, N., Coath, M., Krumbholz, K. and Denham, S.L. (2009). 'Understanding Pitch Perception as a Multi-Scale Hierarchical Generative Process', PLoS Computational Biology, 1009 Mar; 5(3). e1000301
• Belpaeme, T. and Bleys, J. (2009). The impact of statistical distributions of colours on colour category acquisition. Journal of Cognitive Science. 10(1):1-20.
• Borisyuk R., Kazanovich Y., Chik D., Tikhanoff V. and Cangelosi A. (2009). A neural model of selective attention and object segmentation in the visual scene: An approach based on partial synchronization and star-like architecture of connections. Neural Networks, 22(5-6):707-19
• Borisyuk R, Chik D, Kazanovich Y. (2009). Visual perception of ambiguous figures: synchronization based neural models. Biological Cybernetics,100(6):491-504.
• Cutsuridis, V.; Wennekers, T.; Graham, B.P.; Vida, I.; Taylor, J.G. (2009). Microcircuits -- their structure, dynamics and role in brain function. Neural Networks, 22, 1037-1038
• Cutsuridis, V.; Wennekers, T. (2009). Hippocampus, microcircuits and associative memory, Neural Networks, 22, 1120-1128,
• Cangelosi A. (2009). The symbol grounding problems has been solved: Or maybe not? AMD Newsletter, 6(2): 10-12.
• Chik D, Borisyuk R, Kazanovich Y. (2009). Selective attention model with spiking elements. Neural Networks, 22(7):890-900
• Coath, M., Denham, S.L., Smith, L.M., Honing, H., Hazan, A., Holonowicz, P., Purwins, H. (2009). An auditory model for the detection of perceptual onsets and beat tracking in singing. Connection Science, 21, 193-205.
• Coutinho E., Cangelosi A. (2009). The use of spatio-connectionist models in psycho-physiological studies of musical emotions. Music Perception
• Cutsuridis, V., Wennekers, T., Graham, B.P., Vida, I., Taylor, J.G. (2009). Microcircuits - their structure, dynamics and role in brain function. Neural Networks 22, 1037-1038
• Cutsuridis, V., Wennekers, T. (2009). Hippocampus, Microcircuits and Associative Memory. Neural Networks 22, 1120-1128
• Fontanari J.F., Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A., Ilinc R. & Perlovsky L. (2009). Cross-situational learning of object-word mapping using Neural Modeling Fields. Neural Networks
• Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., Pulvermuller, F (2009). Recruitment and consolidation of cell assemblies for words by way of Hebbian learning and competition in a multi-layer neural network. Journal of Cognitive Computation, 1, 160-176
• Ge S. S., C. Yang, S. –L. Dai, Z. Jiao and T. H. Lee (2009). Robust Adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Strict-Feedback Discrete-Time Systems with Exact Output Tracking, Automatica, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2537-2545
• Harris CM (2009) Biomimetics of human movement: functional or aesthetic? Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 4
• Lanyon, L.L., Denham, S.L. (2009). Modelling the effects of attention at the single cell level leads to realistic saccadic timing. Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics, 3,223-242.
• Lopes M, Melo F.S., Kenward B. and Santos-Victor S.. (2009). A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms. Adaptive Behaviour, in press
• Montesano L., Lopes M., Melo F., Bernardino A. and Santos-Victor J. (2009). A Computational Model of Object Affordances. Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2009.
• Martin D. Vestergaard, Gábor P. Háden, Yury Shtyrov, Roy D. Patterson, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Sue L. Denham, István Sziller, István Winkler (2009). ‘Auditory size-deviant detection in adults and newborn infants’. Biol Psychol, 82, 169-175.
• Ruini F., Cangelosi A. (2009). Extending the evolutionary robotics approach to flying machines: an application to MAV teams. Neural Networks
• Schiffman R, Fitzgibbon EJ, Harris C, DeVile C, Davies EH, Abel L, van Schaik IN, Benko W, Timmons M, Ries M, Vellodi A (2008) A randomized controlled trial of miglustat in Gaucher disease type 3. Annals of Neurology, 64: 514-522
• Symes, A. and Wennekers, T. (2009). A large-scale model of spatiotemporal patterns of excitation and inhibition evoked by the horizontal network in layer 2/3 of Ferret visual cortex. eural Networks, 2, 1079--1092
• Wennekers, T (2009). On the natural hierarchical composition of cliques in cell assemblies. Jurnal of Cognitive Computation, 1, 128--138 (Invited key-note paper for the inaugural issue)
• Wennekers, T., Palm, G. (2009). Syntactic Sequencing in Hebbian Cell Assmblies. Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics,
• Winkler, I., S.L. Denham, and I. Nelken (2009), Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects. Trends Cognitive Science
• Yang, S. S. Ge, T. H. Lee (2009). Output Feedback Adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems with Unknown Control Directions, Automatica, vol. 45, no 1, pp. 270-276

2008

• Ballaguer-Ballester, E., Denham, S.L., Meddis, R. (2008), 'A cascade autocorrelation model of pitch perception', J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 124(4), 2186-2195.
• Belpaeme, T (2008) The cultural origins of colour typology. Commentary on Erickson, R.P. A study of the science of taste: On the origins and influence of the core ideas. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 31, 59-105.
• Borisyuk R, Cooke T, Roberts A. (2008). Stochasticity and functionality of neural systems: mathematical modelling of axon growth in the spinal cord of tadpole. Biosystems, 93(1-2):101-14
• Cangelosi A. (2008). Studying the evolution of language: A multi-methodological enterprise. Mind and Society (guest editor of Special Issue)
• Coath, M., Balaguer-Ballester, E., Denham, S.L., Denham, M. (2008). The linearity of emergent spectro-temporal receptive fields in a model of auditory cortex. Biosystems 94, 60-7.
• Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., Pulvermuller, F (2008). A neuroanatomically grounded Hebbian-learning model of attention-language interactions in the human brain. European Journal of Neuroscience 27, 492-513
• Ge S. S., C. Yang and T. H. Lee (2008). Adaptive Robust Control of a Class of Nonlinear Strict-feedback Discrete-time Systems with Unknown Control Directions, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 888–895
• Ge S. S., C. Yang and T. H. Lee (2008). Adaptive Predictive Control Using Neural Network for a Class of Pure-feedback Systems in Discrete-time, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 9, pp.1599-1614
• Haden, G., Stefanics, G., Vestergaard, M.D., Denham, S.L., Sziller, I., Winkler, I. (2008). Timbre-independent extraction of pitch in newborn infants, Psychophysiology, 46, 69-74.
• Montesano L., Lopes M., Bernardino A. & Santos-Victor J. (2008). Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory Motor Maps to Imitation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 24(1), 2008.
• Seabra Lopes, L. and Belpaeme, T. (2008) Beyond the individual: new insights on language, cognition and robots. Connection Science, 20(4):231-237
• Wennekers, T. (2008). Tuned solutions in dynamic neural fields as building blocks for extended EEG models. Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2, 137-146
• Yang C., S. S. Ge, C. Xiang, T. Chai and T. H. Lee (2008). Output Feedback NN Control for two Classes of Discrete-time Systems with Unknown Control Directions in a Unified Approach, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 11, pp.1873-1886

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

• Cangelosi A. (in press). Robotics and embodied agents modelling of the evolution of language. In M. Tallerman (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford University Press.
• Adams, S.V.; Culverhouse, P.F; Wennekers, T.; Bugmann, S. and Denham, S. (2010). A Sensori-Motor Model of Arachnid Prey Localisation. In TAROS 2010: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2010. University of Plymouth
• Dura-Bernal, S.; Wennekers, T. and Denham, S. The role of feedback in a hierarchical model of object perception Proceedings of BICS 2010 - Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 14-16 July 2010, Madrid, Spain
• Gibbons P, Mason M, Vicente A, Bugmann G and Culverhouse PF (2009) Optimisation of Dynamic Gait for Small Bipedal Robots. In Proc. 4th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots. A workshop of the 2009 IEEE-RAS Intl. Conf. On Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2009), Paris (France), 2009, December 7-10, pp. 9-14.
• Ford C., Bugmann G., Culverhouse P. (2010). Eye Movement and Facial Expression in Human-Robot Communication. Proceedings of KEER2010, Paris, pp. 717-729
• Culverhouse P, Martin S, Talloneau R, Rodier T, Hughes N, Gibbons P and Bugmann G (2009) Vision Processing on the Bunny Robot Humanoid Robot. In Proc. 4th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots. A workshop of the 2009 IEEE-RAS Intl. Conf. On Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2009), Paris (France), 2009, December 7-10, pp. 60-65.
• Coath, M.; Mill, R.; Denham, S. and Wennekers, T. The emergence of feature sensitivity in a recurrent model of auditory cortex with spike timing dependant plasticity Proceedings of BICS 2010 - Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 14-16 July 2010, Madrid, Spain.
• Humble, J., Furber, S.; Denham, S. and Wennekers, T. STDP pattern onset learning depends on background activity Proceedings of BICS 2010 - Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 14-16 July 2010, Madrid, Spain.
• Rumbell, T.; Barnden, J.; Denham, S. and Wennekers, T. A Generic Framework for the Analysis of Emotion Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents. Proceedings of BICS 2010 - Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 14-16 July 2010, Madrid, Spain.
• Basalyga, G.; Gleiser, P.M. and Wennekers, T. Emergence of small-world structure in networks of spiking neurons through STDP learning Proceedings of BICS 2010 - Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 14-16 July 2010, Madrid, Spain.
• Denham, S.L., Dura-Bernal, S., Balaguer-Ballester, E., Coath, M. (2010). Neurocomputational models of perceptual organisation, In Winkler, I. and Czigler, I. (eds.),Unconscious memory representations in perception: Processes and mechanisms in the brain / Advances in Consciousness, 147-178
• Denham, S.L., Gymesi, K., Stefanics, G., Winkler, I. (2009).'Stability of perceptual organisation in auditory streaming. Iin Lopez-Poveda, E.A., Palmer, A.R., Meddis, R. (eds.) 'The Neurophysiological Bases of Auditory Perception, Springer, 477-488.
• Peniak M., Bentley B., Marocco B., Cangelosi A., Ampatzis C., Izzo D., Biscani F. (2010). An evolutionary approach to designing autonomous planetary rovers. In TAROS 2010: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2010. University of Plymouth, 198-204
• Ruini F., Cangelosi A. (2010). An incremental approach to the evolutionary design of autonomous controllers for micro-unmanned aerial vehicles. In TAROS 2010: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2010. University of Plymouth, 239-246
• Morse A.F., Belpaeme T., Cangelosi A., Smith L.B. (2010). Thinking with your body: Modelling spatial biases in categorization using a real humanoid robot. Proceedings of 2010 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland., pp 1362-1368
• Cangelosi A. (in press). Cognitive modelling with multi-agent systems. In Seel N.M (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer
• Metta G., Cangelosi A. (in press). Cognitive robotics. In Seel N.M (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer
• Ruini F, Cangelosi A. (in press). An evolutionary robotics 3D model for autonomous MAVs navigation, Target tracking and group coordination. Proceedings of IJCNN2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Barcelona, July 2010.
• Peniak M., Bentley B., Marocco D., Cangelosi A., Ampatzis C., Izzo D., Biscani F. (in press). An island-model framework for evolving neuro-controllers for planetary rover control. Proceedings of IJCNN2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Barcelona, July 2010
• Macura Z., Cangelosi A., Ellis R., Bugmann D., Fischer M.H. & Myachykov A. (2009). A cognitive robotic model of grasping. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Venice, November 12-14 2009
• Peniak M., Marocco D., Ramirez-Contla S. & Cangelosi A. (2009). Co-evolving controller and sensing abilities in a simulated Mars Rover explorer. IJCAI-2009, Special Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Space Research. Los Angeles, July 2009
• Coutinho E. & Cangelosi A. (in press). A neural network model for the prediction of musical emotions. In J. Gray, & S. Nefti-Meziani., Advances in Cognitive Systems. Herts, UK: IET Publisher
• Denham, S.L., Kinga Gyimesi, Gábor Stefanics, and István Winkler (2009). Stability of perceptual organisation in streaming. International Symposium on Hearing, Salamanca, June 2009
• Ballaguer-Ballester, E., Clark, N., Coath, M., Krumbholz, K., Denham, S.L., (2009). 'Understanding Pitch Perception as a Multi-Scale Hierarchical Generative Process', International Symposium on Hearing, Salamanca, June 2009.
• Wolf J., Alexandre Vicente, Peter Gibbons, Nicholas Gardiner, Julian Tilbury, Guido Bugmann and Phil Culverhouse (2009). BunnyBot: Humanoid Platform for Research and Teaching. In Proceedings of FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Incheon, Korea, August 16-20, 2009 (Springer Progress in Robotics: ISBN 978-3-642-03985-0) . pp. 25-33.
• Gibbons P., Phil Culverhouse, and Guido Bugmann (2009). Visual Identification of Grasp Locations on Clothing for a Personal Robot. Proceedings of Taros'09, Londonderry, 31 Aug.-2 Sept. 2009, pp: 78-81.
• Bugmann G. (2009). A Neural Architecture for Fast Learning of Stimulus-Response Associations. Proceeding of IICAI'09, Bangalore.
• Macura Z., Cangelosi A., Ellis R., Bugmann D., Fischer M.H. & Myachykov A. (2009). A cognitive robotic model of grasping. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Venice, November 12-14 2009
• Coutinho E. & Cangelosi A. (in press). A neural network model for the prediction of musical emotions. In J. Gray, & S. Nefti-Meziani, Advances in Cognitive Systems. Herts, UK: IET Publisher
• Denham, S.L., Dura-Bernal, S., Balaguer-Ballester, E., Coath, M. (2009, accepted). Neurocomputational models of perceptual organisation, in Winkler, I. and Czigler, I. (eds,), Unconscious memory representations in perception: Processes and mechanisms in the brain, in the series "Advances in Consciousness".
• Peniak M., Marocco D., Martinez-Contla S., Cangelosi A. (2009). An active vision system for navigating unknown environments: An evolutionary robotics approach. IJCAI-2009, Special Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Space Research. Los Angeles, July 2009
• Fontanari J.F., Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A., Perlovsky L. (2009). A cross-situational algorithm for learning a lexicon using neural modeling fields. IJCNN-09 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, June 2009.
• Lopes M., Melo F. and Montesano L. (2009). Active Learning for Reward Estimation in Inverse Reinforcement Learning. European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML/PKDD) Bled, Slovenia
• Lopes M., Bernardino A., Santos-Victor J., von Hofsten C. and Rosander K. (2009). Biomimetic Eye-Neck Coordination. IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China
• Montesano L. and Lopes M. (2009). Learning grasping affordances from local visual descriptors. IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China
• Ruini F., Cangelosi A., Zetule F. (2009). Individual and cooperative tasks performed by autonomous MAV teams driven by embodied neural networks controllers. IJCNN-09 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, June 2009.
• Mazzapioda M., Cangelosi A. & Nolfi S. (2009). Co-evolving morphology and control: A distributed approach. CEC-2009 Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway. Best paper award
• Peniak M., Marocco D. & Cangelosi A. (2009). Co-evolving controller and sensing abilities in a simulated Mars Rover explorer. CEC-2009 Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway.
• Ernest Montbrió, Rita Almeida, Johan Larsson, Sue Denham and Gustavo Deco (2008). 'A model of the primary auditory cortex response to sequences of pure tones', CNS2008, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 19-24
• Stefanics G., Háden G., Sziller I., Huotilainen M., Vestergaard M.D., Balázs L., Beke A., Fellman V., Denham S.L., Winkler I. (2008). Higher-level auditory skills in newborn infants. FENS2008 (6th Forum of European Neuroscience Societies), Geneva, Switzerland, July 12-16
• Courtney P., Michel O., Cangelosi A., Tikhanoff V., Metta G., Natale L., Nori F., & Kernbach S. (2008). Cognitive systems platforms using open source. In: R. Madhavan, E. Tunstel & E. Messina. Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Springer.
• Copleston S.N. and Bugmann G. (2008) Personal Robot User Expectations. Technical Report 08-01, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Plymouth, UK
• Harris CM (2008) Biomimetics and proportional noise in motor control. Proceedings of the first international conference on bio-inspired systems and signal processing. (Biosignals 2008) INSTICC 2008, Portugal, pp. 37-43
• Wolf J.C. and Bugmann G. (2008). Converting Multi-Modal Task Instructions to Rule-Based Robot Instructions. Proceedings of IEEE ROMAN'08, Munich, Germany, pp. 586-591
• Gibbons P., Phil Culverhouse, and Guido Bugmann (2008). Fabric Manipulation: An Eye Tracking Experiment. Proceedings of Taros'08, Edinburgh, pp. 130-134.
• Cangelosi A. (2008). The grounding and sharing of symbols. In I.E. Dror & S. Harnad (Eds.), Cognition Distributed. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pp.83-92 (reprint of paper from Pragmatics and Cognition, 2006)
• Lopes M, Melo F.S., Kenward B. and Santos-Victor J. (2008). A Computational model for social learning mechanisms. IEEE IROS – Intelligent Robotic Systems: Workshop - From motor to interaction learning in robots Nice, France
• Melo F.S. and Lopes M. (2008). Fitted natural actor-critic: A new algorithm for continuous state-action MDPs. European Conference on Machine Learning(ECML/PKDD) Antwerp, Belgium,
• Ruesch J., Lopes M., Bernardino A., Hörnstein J., Santos-Victor J., Pfeifer R. (2008). Multimodal Saliency-Based Bottom-Up Attention: A Framework for the Humanoid Robot iCub. IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'08), Pasadena, California, USA
• Peniak M., Cangelosi A. & Marocco D. (2008). Autonomous robot Exploration of unknown terrain: A preliminary model of Mars Rover robot. Proceedings of 10th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2008), 11-13 November 2008, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Tikhanoff V, Cangelosi A., Fitzpatrick P., Metta G., Natale L., Nori F. (2008). An open-source simulator for cognitive robotics research: The prototype of the iCub humanoid robot simulator. In R. Madhavan & E.R. Messina (Rds.), Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS’08). Washington, D.C.
• Ruini F, Cangelosi A. (2008). Distributed control in multi-agent systems: A preliminary model of autonomous MAV swarms. Proceedings of11th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION2008), ISIF IEEE, ISIF IEEE, pp. 1043-1050.

Publications before 2008

Previous publications of CRNS staff are available from the following websites: CIIS and CTCN .