Table of Contents
Preface v
Embedded Cognition 1
Understanding Communicative Intentions Using Simulated Role-Reversal M. Klein 3
Affordances and Compatibility Effects: A Neural-Network Computational Model D. Caligiore A. M. Borghi D. Parisi G. Baldassarre 15
Mirroring Maps and Actions Representation Through Embodied Interactions A. Pitti H. Alirezai Y. Kuniyoshi 27
Modeling Visual Affordances: The Selective Attention for Action Model (SAAM) C. Böhme D. Heinke 39
Memory 51
STDP and Auto-Associative Network Function D. Bush A. Philippides M. O'Shea P. Husbands 53
The Hippocampal System as the Manager of Neocortical Declarative Memory Resources L. A. Coward 67
The Role of Structural Plasticity and Synaptic Consolidation for Memory and Amnesia in a Model of Cortico-Hippocampal Interplay A. Knoblauch 79
Context and Semantic Working Memory in Schizophrenia: A Computational and Experimental Investigation M. Usher E. J. Davelaar A. Bertelle S. Seevarajah 91
The Performance of Sparsely-Connected 2D Associative Memory Models with Non-Random Images L. Calcraft R. Adams N. Davey 103
Categorisation 115
Image Categorization and Retrieval A. Wichert 117
Towards a Competitive Learning Model of Mirror Effects in Yes/No Recognition Memory Tests K. C. Dietz H. Bowman J. C. van Hooff 129
Representation and Classification of Facial Expression in a Modular Computational Model A. Shenoy T. Gale R. Frank N. Davey 141
Modelling the Transition from Perceptual to Conceptual Organization G. Westermann D. Mareschal 153
Temporal Aspects of Cognition 165
Detection of Irregularities in Auditory Sequences: A Neural-Network Approach to Temporal Processing J. Haβ S. Blaschke T.Rammsayer J. M. Herrmann 167
Information Dynamics and the Perception of Temporal Structure S. A. Abdallah M. D. Plumbley 179
Concepts and High-Level Cognition 191
Combining Self-Organizing and Bayesian Models of Concept Formation T. Lindh-Knuutila J. Raitio T. Honkela 193
Towards the Integration of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Spatial Cognition: A Dynamic Field Theory Approach J. Lipinski J. P. Spencer L. K. Samuelson 205
Investigating Systematicity in the Linear RAAM Neural Network I. Farka&scheck; M. Pokorný 217
On the Psychology and Modelling of Self-Control A. Cleanthous C. Christodoulou 229
Conflict-Monitoring and (Meta)Cognitive Control E. J. Davelaar 241
Representation Theory Meets Anatomy: Factor Learning in the Hippocampal Formation A. Lörincz G. Szirtes 253
What Use Are Computational Models of Cognitive Processes? T. Stafford 265
Language, Learning and Development 275
A Localist Neural Network Model for Early Child Language Acquisition from Motherese A. Nyamapfene 277
Synctactic Generalization in a Connectionist Model of Complex Sentence Production H. Fitz F. Chang 289
A Connectionist Model of Reading for Italian G. Pagliuca P. Monaghan 301
Simulating German Verb Inflection with a Constructivist Neural Network N. Ruh G. Westermann 313
How Many Words do Infants Know, Really? J. Mayor K. Plunkett 325
Modelling Sensory Integration and Embodied Cognition in a Model of Word Recognition P. Monaghan T. A. Nazir 337
Competition as a Mechanism for Producing Sensitive Periods in Connectionist Models of Development M. S. C. Thomas 349
Neuroevolution of Auto-Teaching Architectures E. Robinson J. A. Bullinaria 361
Sensory Processing and Attention 373
More is not Necessarily Better: Gabor Dimensional Reduction of Visual Inputs Yield Better Performance than Direct Pixel Coding for Neural Network Classifiers M. Mermillod D. Alleysson S. C. Musca M. Dubois J. Barra T. Atzeni R. Palluel C. Marendaz 375
Neural Models of Prediction and Sustained Inattentional Blindness A. F. Morse 387
Decomposition of Neural Circuits of Human Attention Using a Model-Based Analysis: sSoTS Model Application to fMRI Data E. Mavritsaki H. Allen G. Humphreys 401
Author Index 415
