From Animals to Animats 11: 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2010, Paris - Clos Lucé, France, August 25-28, 2010. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
From Mirror Writing to Mirror Neurons....Pages 1-12
How Virtual Machinery Can Bridge the “Explanatory Gap”, in Natural and Artificial Systems....Pages 13-24
Do Empirical Models of Robot-Environment Interaction Have a Meaning?....Pages 25-37
Information Dynamics of Evolved Agents....Pages 38-49
Taming the Beast: Guided Self-organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robots....Pages 50-61
Slime Mold Inspired Chemical Sounding....Pages 62-71
A Conserved Network for Control of Arthropod Exteroceptive Optical Flow Reflexes during Locomotion....Pages 72-81
Modifying Directionality through Auditory System Scaling in a Robotic Lizard....Pages 82-92
SCRATCHbot: Active Tactile Sensing in a Whiskered Mobile Robot....Pages 93-103
Toward a Spiking-Neuron Model of the Oculomotor System....Pages 104-113
An Integrated Neuromimetic Model of the Saccadic Eye Movements for the Psikharpax Robot....Pages 114-125
Reconstructing the Acoustic Signal of a Sound Source: What Did the Bat Say?....Pages 126-135
Simulating the Morphological Feasibility of Adaptive Beamforming in Bats....Pages 136-145
On the Influence of Sensor Morphology on Vergence....Pages 146-155
Adapting Preshaped Grasping Movements Using Vision Descriptors....Pages 156-166
Multimodal Predictive Control in Crickets....Pages 167-177
Tactile Discrimination Using Template Classifiers: Towards a Model of Feature Extraction in Mammalian Vibrissal Systems....Pages 178-187
A Supramodal Vibrissa Tactile and Auditory Model for Texture Recognition....Pages 188-198
Learning to Look in Different Environments: An Active-Vision Model Which Learns and Readapts Visual Routines....Pages 199-210
Estimating Relative Positions of Multiple Objects in the Weakly Electric Fish....Pages 211-220
Internal Models in the Cerebellum: A Coupling Scheme for Online and Offline Learning in Procedural Tasks....Pages 435-446
eMOSAIC Model for Humanoid Robot Control....Pages 447-457
Noisy-or Nodes for Conditioning Models....Pages 458-467
Adaptation of Coupled Sensorimotor Mappings: An Investigation towards Developmental Learning of Humanoids....Pages 468-477
Learning Inverse Kinematics for Pose-Constraint Bi-manual Movements....Pages 478-488
TeXDYNA: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs....Pages 489-500
Learning Robot-Environment Interaction Using Echo State Networks....Pages 501-510
A Novel Information Measure for Predictive Learning in a Social System Setting....Pages 511-522
Co-development of Linguistic and Behavioural Skills: Compositional Semantics and Behaviour Generalisation....Pages 523-532
Indirectly Encoding Neural Plasticity as a Pattern of Local Rules....Pages 533-543
Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robust Locomotion Control of Modular Robots....Pages 544-554
The Dependence of Braking Strategies on Optical Variables in an Evolved Model of Visually-Guided Braking....Pages 555-564
Self-organizing Robot Teams Using Asynchronous Situated Co-evolution....Pages 565-574
Emergence of an Internal Model in Evolving Robots Subjected to Sensory Deprivation....Pages 575-586
Emergent Distribution of Computational Workload in the Evolution of an Undulatory Animat....Pages 587-596
Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms to Investigate Neurocomputational Issues: The Case Study of Basal Ganglia Models....Pages 597-606
Cooperative Stigmergic Navigation in a Heterogeneous Robotic Swarm....Pages 607-617
How to Pick the Right One: Investigating Tradeoffs among Female Mate Choice Strategies in Treefrogs....Pages 618-627
Autonomous Development of Social Referencing Skills....Pages 628-638
A Model of Symmetry Breaking in Collective Decision-Making....Pages 639-648
Simulation of How Neuromodulation Influences Cooperative Behavior....Pages 649-660
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