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Emmet Spier

emmet@sussex.ac.uk
Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (also COGS)
Informatics, Sussex University, Brighton BN1 9QH
Phone: +44 1273 (87)3594 Fax: +44 1273 877873


Draft papers

Spier E. (2004) Behavioural Categorisation: Behaviour makes up for bad vision.
In Artificial Life 9. MIT Press.
Lewin. M. and Spier, E (2003) Language Games with Mixed Populations.
In Advances in Artificial Life, Seventh European Conference, ECAL 2003, 462-471. Dortmund, Germany. Springer
Spier E (2002) Did sex make you brainy?.
Psycoloquy. 13(4)
Spier E (2001) Robotic experiments on rat instrumental learning.
In Artificial Ethology. Oxford University Press. 189-209.
Spier E, McFarland D. (1998) Learning to do without cognition.
In From Animals to Animat 5: SAB98. 38-47 [Abstract]
Hameroff S, Spier E, Thomas A. (1998) A debate on quantum consciousness with Stuart Hameroff.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 119-127.
Spier E, McFarland D. (1997). Possibly Optimal Decision Making Under Self-Sufficency and Autonomy
Journal of Theoretical Biology 189, 317-331. [Abstract]
McFarland D, Spier E. (1997). Basic Cycles, Utility and Opportunism in Self-Sufficient Robots.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 20, 179-190. [Abstract]
Spier E, McFarland D. (1996) A Finer-Grained Motivational Model of Behaviour Sequencing.
In From Animals to Animat 4: SAB96. 255-63. [Abstract]

DPhil Thesis. From reactive behaviour to adaptive behaviour: Motivational models for behaviour in animals and robots. 1997. Oxford University.
99 pages with a 13 page appendix. [Abstract]