Principles of minimal cognition: Casting cognition as sensorimotor coordination

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-170

  Van Duijn, Marc ^a   Keijzer, Fred ^a   Franken, Daan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Escherichia coli; Minimal cognition; Sensorimotor coupling; Situated cognition; Tcst system

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33745186901     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230601400207     Document Type: Article

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