More things than are dreamt of in your biology: Information-processing in biologically inspired robots

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-174

  Sloman, A ^a   Chrisley, R L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Biology; Emotion; Evolution; Information processing; Ontological blindness; Ontology; Robotics; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EMOTIONS; EVOLUTION; ONTOLOGICAL BLINDNESS; ONTOLOGY; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTIVATION; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 27644448946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2004.06.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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