Post:	Senior Lecturer in Informatics
Location:	Pevensey 3 4C08
Email:	L.Berthouze@sussex.ac.uk
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Telephone numbers
Internal:	7206
UK:	(01273) 877206
International:	+44 1273 877206

Research

Motor development in infants and in machines: synergies, degree of freedom problem, freezing and freeing, developmental robotics; Computational developmental neuroscience: emergence of synchrony, self-organised criticality in neuronal systems, and relation to motor control; Clinical applications of a dynamical systems approach to characterising infant movements (particularly in cerebral palsy).

Teaching

Dynamics of Development (927G8, MSc)
Computational Neuroscience (820G5, MSc)
Neural Networks (G5015, UG3; 807G5, MSc)

Selected publications

2008

Assembly, Tuning, and Transfer of Action Systems in Infants and Robots (with Eugene C. Goldfield) in Infant and Child Development Volume 17 pp. 25-42

2006

A neural model for context-dependent sequence learning (with Adriaan Tijsseling) in Neural Processing Letters Volume 23 pp. 27-45

Passive compliance for an RC servo-controlled bouncing robot (with Friedrich Meyer and Alexander Sproewitz) in Advanced Robotics Volume 20 pp. 953-961

2004

Motor skill acquisition under environmental perturbations: On the necessity of alternate freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom (with Max Lungarella) in Adaptive Behavior Volume 12 pp. 47-64

Robot bouncing: On the synergy between neural and body-environment dynamics (with Max Lungarella) Iida, Pfeifer, Steels, and Kuniyoshi, ed., in LNCS Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Volume 3139 pp. 86-97

2002

On the interplay between morphological, neural and environmental dynamics (with Max Lungarella) in Adaptive Behavior Volume 10 pp. 223-241