ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR & COGNITION Research Group

 

 

 

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Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Research Group

Centre for Interactive Intelligent Systems

School of Computing Comms. Electronics
University of Plymouth
Portland Square A316
Plymouth, PL4 8AA (UK)

For more info, please contact: acangelosi@plymouth.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

The aims of our research group are (i) to investigate the evolution and organisation of natural and artificial cognitive systems using adaptive behaviour and cognitive modelling methods and (ii) to design biologically-inspired cognitive systems and robots.

 

Research topics:

 

 

·         Language learning in robots

·         Cognitive developmental robotics

·         Evolution of language and cognition

·         Categorical perception and language

·         Symbol grounding

·         Cognitive and neural modelling

·         Distributed control and collective behaviour

·         Synthetic brain imaging

·         Information visualisation in adaptive agents

·         Artificial life and adaptive behaviour

·         Multi-agent modelling

·         Evolutionary robotics

 

 

 

 

Members

 

Research Projects

·         Prof Angelo Cangelosi (Group Leader)

·         Dr Davide Marocco

·         Dr Zoran Macura

·         Martin Beck

·         Vadim Tikhanoff

·         Fabio Ruini

·         Martin Peniak

·         Eduardo Coutinho

·         Gianluca Massera

·         Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda

Associate members

·         Dr Tony Belpaeme (Robotics, UoP)

·         Dr Liz Stuart (Visualisation, UoP)

·         Prof Kenny Coventry (Northumbria Univ.)

·         Prof Stevan Harnad (UQAM, Montreal)

Past members

·         Barbara Giolito (Univ. Piemonte O.)

·         Richard Holden

·         Isabella La Rovere

·         Rohana Rajapakse

·         Thomas Riga

Past projects

Events organised

·         EVOLANG7: Language Evolution Conference (Barcelona 2008)

·         EVOLANG6: Language Evolution Conference (Rome 2006)

·         External Symbol Grounding Workshop (Plymouth 2006)

·         IJCNN06: Session on Language Evolution and Acquisition (Vancouver, 2006)

·         EELC2-AISB: Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (Hatfield, 2005)

·         NCPW9: Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (Plymouth, 2004)

Related Links

·         Centre for Intelligent Interactive Systems

·         Research in School of Computing C.E.

·         The ABC Group, Max Planck Berlin