Biological and artificial cognition: What can we learn about mechanisms by modelling physical cognition problems using artificial intelligence planning techniques?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1603, 2012, Pages 2723-2732

  Chappell, Jackie ^a   Hawes, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Comparative cognition; Function; Mechanism; Modelling; Planning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE;

EID: 84865443489     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0221     Document Type: Review

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