Collective Information Processing - From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems Abstract: Collective systems such animal groups or cellular ensembles represent fascinating examples of self-organization in biology. In contrast
Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action Establishing a representation of space is a major goal of sensory systems. Spatial information, however, is not always explicit in
BIO: Michael Pauen is a philosopher with a focus on the philosophy of mind. As the academic director of an interdisciplinary graduate school, he has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research
I will present a model of continuous-time opinion dynamics for an arbitrary number of agents that communicate over a network and form real-valued opinions about an arbitrary number of options.
Experimenting with Intelligence Abstract. Within just 7 years, behavioral decision research in psychology underwent a dramatic change. In 1967, Peterson and Beach (1967a) reviewed more than 160 experiments concerned with
ABSTRACT: Self-preservation is embodied in our brain’s circuitry: we seek food when hungry, warmth when cold, and mates when lusty. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, circuitry for regulating one’s
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Reconstructing the locomotion of key vertebrate fossil specimens offers insights into their palaeobiology and helps to conceptualize major transitions in vertebrate evolution. A unique combination of an articulated nearly complete
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All animal ethical positions are largely in agreement that animals – as beings capable of suffering – must be morally considered for their own sake and that certain consequences for
Visual perception is shaped by the input from our physical environment and by expectations derived from our sensory experience with the visual world. But is what we see also influenced
Finding flexible tool use and manufacture in non-specialized animals, may contribute to our understanding of the origins of tool-related cognition. Goffin's cockatoos are Indonesian parrots that originate from a small
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