PG seminars will be held Fridays 10:00-11:00, Pev1-1A3
UG seminars will be held Thursdays 10:00-11:00, Pev1-2A3

Week 3: The Nervous System as Physical Machine: With Special Reference to the Origin of Adaptive Behavior, W. R. Ashby, Mind, New Series, Vol. 56, No. 221. (Jan., 1947), pp. 44-59. Homeostatic adaptation to inversion of the visual field and other sensorimotor disruptions.  E. Di Paolo, Proc. SAB 2000.  From a homeostatic self to a homeodynamic self.  T. Ikegami and K. Suzuki.  Biosystems 91 (2008): 388-400.

Week 4: Adaptation, R. C. Lewontin, Scientific American, 239(9), 156-69, 1978. The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.  S.J. Gould and R. Lewontin (1979). Proc. R. Soc. B. 205:581-598.  Optimality theory in evolutionary biology. G.A. Parker and J. Maynard-Smith (1990). Nature, 348, 27-33.

Week 5: For U/Gs this first paper specifically:-  Myin, E., & O'Regan, J.K. (2008). Situated perception and sensation in vision and other modalities: from an active to a sensorimotor account.   in Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition.   You may want to browse through any others below.
For P/Gs:- also select from:-

Homeostatic adaptation to inversion of the visual field and other sensorimotor disruptions.  E. Di Paolo, Proc. SAB 2000.
Experiments with goggles, I. Kohler, Scientific American, May 1962.
Plasticity in sensory-motor systems, Richard Held, Scientific American, November 1965.
Suzuki, M., Floreano, D., & Di Paolo, E. A. (2005). The contribution of active body movement to visual development in evolutionary robots. Neural Networks, 18(5-6). 

Week 6: U/Gs (and P/Gs) read the first 2 papers:-
McFarland, David(1992) 'Animals as cost-based robots', International Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, 6: 2, 133-153

Furey. A. and Harvey, I. (2008). Adaptive behavioural modulation and hysteresis in an analogue of a kite control task.
In Asada, M., Hallam, J.C.T., Meyer, J.-A. and Tani, J. (Eds.) From Animals to Animats 10, Proc. of 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Springer.
P/Gs: also read:-
E. Tuci, M. Quinn and I. Harvey (2003): An evolutionary ecological approach to the study of learning behaviour using a robot based model
Adaptive Behavior 10(3/4):201-222, 2003

Week 7: U/Gs: No standard seminar, but an optional (though recommended)  meeting (standard time/place) to discuss general issues with tackling your projects and essays for assessment.
P/G Lab Class.09::00-11:00,  Friday 26th February, in EASy MSc Lab CHI-2R304. N.B. this is not the date/time/room as originally timetabled.  See instructions here.