Cognitive Science is a discipline that brings together research in natural and artificial systems and this is clearly reflected in the diverse contributions to From Animals to Robots and Back.
In tribute to Aaron Sloman and his pioneering work in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, the editors have collected a unique collection of cross-disciplinary papers that include work on:
- intelligent robotics;
- philosophy of cognitive science;
- emotional research
- computational vision;
- comparative psychology; and
- human-computer...
Cognitive Science is a discipline that brings together research in natural and artificial systems and this is clearly reflected in the diverse cont...
The field of robotic vision has advanced dramatically recently with the development of new range sensors. Tremendous progress has been made resulting in significant impact on areas such as robotic navigation, scene/environment understanding, and visual learning. This edited book provides a solid and diversified reference source for some of the most recent important advancements in the field of robotic vision. The book starts with articles that describe new techniques to understand scenes from 2D/3D data such as estimation of planar structures, recognition of multiple objects in the scene...
The field of robotic vision has advanced dramatically recently with the development of new range sensors. Tremendous progress has been made resulti...
This book is designed to help athletes and individuals interested in high sports performance in their journey towards the perfection of human sports abilities and achievements. It has two main goals: accelerating the acquisition of motor skills and preparing and vigilantly reducing the recovery time after training and competition. The Diamond Sports Protocol (DSP) presents state-of-the-art techniques for current sport and health technologies, particularly neuromuscular electrical stimulation (Sports Wave), oxygen infusion (Oxy Sports), infrared (Sports Infrared Dome) and lactic acid...
This book is designed to help athletes and individuals interested in high sports performance in their journey towards the perfection of human sport...
This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major insights long unknown to the scientific community. Without any doubt their work will provide a springboard for further research in anticipation. Until recently, Robert Rosen (Anticipatory Systems) and Mihai Nadin (MIND - Anticipation and Chaos) were deemed forerunners in this still new knowledge domain.
The distinguished neurobiologist, Steven Rose, pointed to the fact that Soviet neuropsychological theories have not on the whole been well...
This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major insights long unk...
In this fundamental book the authors devise a framework that describes the working of the brain as a whole. It presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles of Neural Information Processing as well as recent and authoritative research. The books guiding principles are the main purpose of neural activity, namely, to organize behavior to ensure survival, as well as the understanding of the evolutionary genesis of the brain. Among the developed principles and strategies belong self-organization of neural systems, flexibility, the active interpretation of the world by means of...
In this fundamental book the authors devise a framework that describes the working of the brain as a whole. It presents a comprehensive introductio...
This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the last decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism, to emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surrounding social and material world.
This book presents a theoretical framework for the relational nature of embodied social cognition, which is based on an interdisciplinary approach that ranges...
This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories...
Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and activity of humankind than it is today. It is no overstatement to suggest that humanity s future will be shaped by its capacity to anticipate . (Research Agenda for the 21stCentury, National Science Foundation). The sciences and the humanities can no longer risk explaining away the complexity and interactivity that lie at the foundation of life and living. The perspective of the world that anticipation opens justifies the descriptor the post-Cartesian Revolution.
If anticipation is a valid research domain, what...
Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and activity of humankind than it is today. It is no overstatement to suggest that humanity...
This book presents state-of-the-art computationalattention models that have been successfully tested in diverse applicationareas and can build the foundation for artificial systems to efficientlyexplore, analyze, and understand natural scenes.
This book presents state-of-the-art computationalattention models that have been successfully tested in diverse applicationareas and can build the fou...
With the aid of this book, the reader will learn everything about the self-organization of behavior in robots that is known today. Many of the results are presented here for the first time. This work opens a new field of research.
With the aid of this book, the reader will learn everything about the self-organization of behavior in robots that is known today. Many of the results...
