| Post: | Reader in Informatics |
| Location: | Pevensey 3 |
| Email: | A.K.Seth@sussex.ac.uk |
| Personal homepage | |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8549 |
| UK: | (01273) 678549 |
| International: | +44 1273 678549 |
Biography
BA (MA), Cambridge (1994). M.Sc., Sussex (1996). D.Phil., Sussex (2001). Postdoctoral Fellow & Associate Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego (2001-2006). Sussex Permanent Faculty (2006-), EPSRC Leadership Fellow (2008-2013)
Role
Senior Lecturer, EPSRC Leadership Fellow
Research
Consciousness science, theoretical and computational neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, artificial life, adaptive systems
Selected publications
2009
Animal consciousness: A synthetic approach in Trends in Neurosciences, Awaiting Publication
Axioms, properties and criteria: Roles for synthesis in the science of consciousness (with Robert Clowes) in Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Medicine Volume 44 pp. 94-104
Consciousness and complexity (with Gerald M Edelman) B Meyer, ed., in Springer encyclopedia of complexity and systems science Springer, Awaiting Publication
Explanatory correlates of consciousness: Theoretical and computational challenges in Cognitive Computation Volume 1 pp. 50-63
Measuring autonomy and emergence via Granger causality in Artificial Life, Awaiting Publication
The strength of weak artificial consciousness in International Journal of Machine Consciousness Volume 1 pp. 71-82
Theories and models of consciousness (with Bernard Baars) L Squire, ed., in New Elsevier Encyclopedia of Neuroscience Elsevier Press, Awaiting Publication
2008
Causal networks in simulated neural systems in Cognitive Neurodynamics Volume 2 pp. 49-64
Closing the sensory-motor loop on dopamine signalled reinforcement learning (with Paul Chorley) in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Springer
Embodied models of delayed neural responses: Spatiotemporal categorization and predictive motor control in brain-based devices (with Jeff McKinstry, Gerald Edelman and Jeff Krichmar) in Neural Networks Volume 21 pp. 553-561
Measuring consciousness: Relating behavioural and neurophysiological measures (with Zoltan Dienes) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences Volume 12 pp. 314-321
Measuring emergence via nonlinear Granger causality Bullock, Watson, Noble, Bedau, ed., in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life MIT Press
Movement strategies for learning in visual recognition (with Edgar Bermudez Contreras and Andy Philippides) Bullock, Watson, Noble, Bedau, ed., in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life
Partial Granger causality: Eliminating exogenous inputs and latent variables (with Jianfeng Feng, Shuxia Guo and Keith Kendrick) in Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 172 pp. 79-93
2007
Distinguishing causal interactions in neural populations (with Gerald M. Edelman) in Neural Computation Volume 19 pp. 910-933
Granger causality in Scholarpedia Volume 2 pp. 1667
Measuring autonomy by multivariate autoregressive modelling Almeida e Costa, ed., in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life pp. 475-485
Modelling natural action selection (with Tony. J. Prescott and Joanna J. Bryson) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Series B Volume 362
Modelling natural action selection: Introduction to the theme issue (with Tony. J. Prescott and Joanna J. Bryson) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Series B Volume 362 pp. 1521-9
Models of consciousness in Scholarpedia Volume 2 pp. 1328
Post-decision wagering measures metacognitive content, not sensory consciousness in Consciousness and Cognition Volume 17 pp. 981-983
Simulations of simulations in evolutionary robotics (with Edgar Bermudez Contreras) in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life pp. 796-806
The ecology of action selection: Insights from artificial life in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Series B Volume 362 pp. 1545-58
The functional utility of consciousness depends on content as well as on state in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Volume 30 pp. 106
Theories and measures of consciousness develop together in Consciousness and Cognition Volume 17 pp. 986-988
2006
Single trial discrimination of truthful from deceptive responses during a game of financial risk using alpha-band MEG signals (with John R. Iversen and Gerald M. Edelman) in Neuroimage Volume 32 pp. 465-476
Theories and measures of consciousness: An extended framework (with Eugene M. Izhikevich, George N. Reeke and Gerald M. Edelman) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA Volume 103 pp. 10799-10804
2005
Causal connectivity of evolved neural networks during behavior in Network: Computation in neural systems Volume 16 pp. 35-54
Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals (with Bernard J. Baars and David B. Edelman) in Consciousness and cognition Volume 14 pp. 119-239
Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species (with David B. Edelman and Bernard J. Baars) in Consciousness and cognition Volume 14 pp. 169-187
Neural Darwinism and consciousness (with Bernard J. Baars) in Consciousness and cognition Volume 14 pp. 140-168
Neurorobotic models in neuroscience and neuroinformatics (with Jeffrey L. Krichmar and Olaf Sporns) in Neuroinformatics Volume 3 pp. 167-170
Spatial navigation and causal analysis in a brain-based device having detailed cortical-hippocampal interactions (with Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Douglas A. Nitz and Jason G. Fleischer) in Neuroinformatics
2004
Environment and behavior influence the complexity of evolved neural networks (with Gerald M. Edelman) in Adaptive Behavior Volume 12 pp. 5-21
Visual binding through reentrant connectivity and dynamic synchronization in a brain-based device (with Jeffrey L. McKinstry, Gerald M. Edelman and Jeffrey L. Krichmar) in Cerebral Cortex Volume 14 pp. 1185-1199
2003
The power of human brain magnetoencephalographic signals can be modulated up or down by changes in an attentive visual task (with Yanqing Chen, Joseph A. Gally and Gerald M. Edelman) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA Volume 100 pp. 3501-3506
2002
Modelling group foraging: Individual suboptimality, interference, and a kind of matching in Adaptive Behavior Volume 9 pp. 67-90
1998
Evolving action selection and selective attention without action, attention, or selection R. Pfeifer et al., ed., in Proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Cambridge, MA: MIT Press