Intelligence in Animals and Machines. Seminar Readings
     

    Organisation: Ezequiel Di Paolo

    *UPDATED list*, Full text links have been provided when available.

    Week 2

    Rodney Brooks, 1995, "Intelligence without reason" In L. Steels and R. Brooks (eds) ``The artificial life route to artificial intelligence'', Lawrence Erlbaum Ass. Library QZ 1250 Art.

    Week 3

    David Kirsh, 1991, "Today the earwig, tomorrow man?" In Artificial Intelligence, V 47, pp 161-184. Reprinted in "The Philosophy of Artificial Life", M. Boden (ed), OUP.

    Week 4

    Barbara Webb, 1996, "A Cricket Robot" Scientific American, December, 1996, pp 62-67

    See also Webb's target paper and response on issue 17/4 of Adaptive Behavior, 2009

    Week 5

    R Wehner, B Michel and P Anonsen, 1996,  "Visual Navigation in Insects: Coupling of Egocentric and Geocentric Information"Journal of Experimental Biology 199, pp 129-140

    K Dale and TS Collett, 2001,  "Using artificial evolution and selection to model insect navigation" Current Biology 11, pp 1305-1316

    Complementary Reading: TS Collett, 1992, "Landmark Learning and Guidance in Insects" Phil Trans R Soc Lond B (1992) 337, pp 295-303


    Week 6

    Cliff, D. ,1991, "Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto". In Meyer, J-A., and Wilson, S.W. (eds.), Proc 1st Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour: From Animals to Animats, pp. 29-39, MIT Press.

    Complementary Reading: Elman, J.L. et al., 1996, Rethinking Innateness. MIT Press. Chap 2: Why connectionism?

    Elman, J.L., 1998, Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems: New approaches to old questions. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.) A Companion to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Basil Blackwood


    Week 7

    Enquist M, Arak A, 1994, "Symmetry, beauty and evolution." Nature, 372, 169-172

    Bullock S, Cliff D, 1997, "The role of 'hidden preferences' in the artificial co-evolution of symmetrical signals." Proc. R Soc. Lond. B. 264, 505-511

    Complementary Reading: Enquist M, Arak A, 1993, "Selection of exaggerated male traits by female aesthetic senses." Nature, 361, 446-448


    Week 8

    Seeley, TD S. Camazine, and J. Sneyd, 1991, "Collective decision making in honey bees: how colonies choose among nectar sources" Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. vol 28 pp 277-290.

    Week 9

    NO SEMINAR ON WEEK 9

    Week 10

    Byrne, R. et al, 2004, "Understanding culture across species". Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8: 341-346.

    Dunbar, R.I.M., 1998, "The social brain hypothesis". Evol. Anthropol. 6,178-190

    Complementary Reading: Boesch, C., "The emergence of culture among wild chimpanzees". Proc. Brit.Acad 88, 251-268