Publications from 2008

 

Books

  • Belpaeme, T., Cowley, S.J. and MacDorman, K.F., eds. (2009) Symbol grounding. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

Journals

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Coventry K.R, Lynott L., Cangelosi A., Knight L., Joyce D., Richardson D.C. (in press). Spatial language, visual attention, and perceptual simulation. Brain and Language
  • 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
  • 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. Neural Networks, 2, 1079--1092, 2009
  • Wennekers, T., Palm, G. (2009). Syntactic Sequencing in Hebbian Cell Assmblies. Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics,
  • Wennekers, T. (2009). On the Natural Hierarchical Composition of Cliques in Cell Assemblies. Journal of Cognitive Computation
  • Winkler, I., S.L. Denham, and I. Nelken (2009), Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects. Trends Cognitive Science,
  • 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
  • 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

     

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

  • 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 .