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 Artificial Cognition Systems


A book edited by Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz
2006
(link to the book at publisher's page - more info and how to buy)

published by IDEA Group Inc. 
ISBN: Hard cover: 1-59904-111-1, Soft cover: 1-59904-112-X, E-Book: 1-59904-113-8


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1: Modeling Cognition

Chapter 1: The Goose, the Fly, and the Submarine Navigator: Interdisciplinarity in Artificial Cognition Research
Alexander Riegler (Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Research, Vrije Universeit Brussel)

Chapter 2: An Embodied Logical Model for Cognition
Guilherme Bittencourt and Jerusa Marchi (Departamento de Automação e Sistemas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

Chapter 3: Modeling Field Theory of Higher Cognitive Functions
Leonid Perlovsky (Air Force Research Laboratory)

Section 2: Methodological Issues

Chapter 4: Reconstructing Human Intelligence within Computational Sciences: An Introductory Essay
Gerd Doeben-Henisch (University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main)

Chapter 5: Stratified Constraint Satisfaction Networks in Synergetic Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution
Alexander Mehler (Department of Computational Linguistics, Bielefeld University)

Section 3: Cognition and Robotics

Chapter 6: Language evolution and robotics: Issues on symbol grounding and language acquisition
Paul Vogt (Language Evolution and Computation research unit, University of Edinburgh, and Induction of Linguistic Knowledge group, Tilburg University)

Chapter 7: Evolutionary Robotics as a Tool to Investigate Spatial Cognition in Artificial and Natural Systems
Michela Ponticorvo (Department of Linguistics, University of Calabria)
Richard Walker (XiWrite S.a.S.)
Orazio Miglino (Department of Relational Sciences "Gustavo Iacono", University of Naples “Federico II”)

Chapter 8: The meaningful body: On the differences between artificial and organic creatures
Willem Haselager (Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University)
Maria Eunice Gonzalez (Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind Graduate Program, Department of Philosophy, UNESP)

Section 4: Cognition in Virtual Agents

Chapter 9: Making Meaning in Computers: Synthetic Ethology Revisited
Bruce MacLennan (Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee)

Chapter 10: Environmental Variability and the Emergence of Meaning: Simulational Studies Across Imitation, Genetic Algorithms, and Neural Nets
Patrick Grim and Trina Kokalis (Group for Logic & Formal Semantics, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Section 5: Theoretical and Philosophical issues

Chapter 11: Mimetic Minds: Meaning Formation through Epistemic Mediators and External Representations
Lorenzo Magnani (Department of Philosophy and Computational Laboratory, University of Pavia)

Chapter 12: First Steps in Experimental Phenomenology
Roberto Poli (University of Trento and Mitteleuropa Foundation)