Rat pups and random robots generate similar self-organized and intentional behavior

Complexity

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-66

  May, Christopher J ^a   Schank, Jeffrey C ^a   Joshi, Sanjay ^b   Tran, Jonathan ^b   Taylor, R J ^a   Scott, I Esha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Biorobotics; Dynamical systems; Embodied cognition; Randomness; Rattus norvegicus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33750881154     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20149     Document Type: Article

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