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    HeX and the single anthill: playing games with Aunt Hillary
    with J. M. Bishop, S. J. Nasuto, T. Tanay, and M. C. Spencer
    In Vincent C. Müller (ed.), Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence, Springer. pp. 367-389. 2016.
    In a reflective and richly entertaining piece from 1979, Doug Hofstadter playfully imagined a conversation between ‘Achilles’ and an anthill (the eponymous ‘Aunt Hillary’), in which he famously explored many ideas and themes related to cognition and consciousness. For Hofstadter, the anthill is able to carry on a conversation because the ants that compose it play roughly the same role that neurons play in human languaging; unfortunately, Hofstadter’s work is notably short on detail suggesting ho…Read more
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    A Blueprint for Affective Computing: A Sourcebook and Manual (edited book)
    with Klaus R. Scherer and Tanja Bänziger
    Oxford University Press. 2010.
    'Affective computing' is a branch of computing concerned with the theory and construction of machines which can detect, respond to, and simulate human emotional states. This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of this rapidly expanding field, aimed at those in psychology, computational neuroscience, computer science, and AI. A Blueprint for Affective Computing: A sourcebook and manual is the very first attempt to ground affective computing within the disciplines of psychology, affect…Read more
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    Zombie Mouse in a Chinese Room
    with Slawomir J. Nasuto, John Mark Bishop, and Matthew C. Spencer
    Philosophy and Technology 28 (2): 209-223. 2015.
    John Searle’s Chinese Room Argument purports to demonstrate that syntax is not sufficient for semantics, and, hence, because computation cannot yield understanding, the computational theory of mind, which equates the mind to an information processing system based on formal computations, fails. In this paper, we use the CRA, and the debate that emerged from it, to develop a philosophical critique of recent advances in robotics and neuroscience. We describe results from a body of work that contrib…Read more
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    Directed Motor-Auditory EEG Connectivity Is Modulated by Music Tempo
    with Nicoletta Nicolaou, Asad Malik, Ian Daly, James Weaver, Faustina Hwang, Alexis Kirke, Duncan Williams, Eduardo R. Miranda, and Slawomir J. Nasuto
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11. 2017.
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    Bigger data for big data: From Twitter to brain–computer interfaces
    with Frederic Stahl and Mohamed Medhat Gaber
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (1): 97-98. 2014.
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    In Search of a New Looking Glass: Cognitive Science Is Not Dead, It Is Just Asleep
    Constructivist Foundations 11 (2): 419-420. 2016.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Exploring the Depth of Dream Experience: The Enactive Framework and Methods for Neurophenomenological Research” by Elizaveta Solomonova & Xin Wei Sha. Upshot: Solomonova and Sha draw inspiration from the work programme that sparked the enactive extension to cognitive science, and propose a framework for dream scientists. This case study for a renewed cognitive science highlights key points that are worth developing, in light of current practices in neuroscien…Read more