Is cognition a matter of representations? emulation, teleology, and time-keeping in biological systems

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 400-415

  Rodríguez, Ángel García ^a   Garzón, Paco Calvo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

circadian oscillator; closed loop architecture; Cognition; emulation theory; representation; tropism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449313414     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712310385479     Document Type: Article

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