Readings for Alex’s PSYC3014 lectures

Brains vs. Computers (lectures 1 and 2)

The state of the art for robots manipulating things in a slightly uncontrolled environment. The DRC Finals , Video

When robots are better than humans. Tesla car factory
2015 Robo Cup, Video
the best rant about Henry Markram’s boondoggle. Note that it’s a rant and probably overstates the case.
“early AI researchers made a big mistake: they thought intelligence was stuff they found hard to do” - Rodney Brooks video
O’Reilly, R. C., Munakata, Y., Frank, M. J., Hazy, T. E., et al. (2012). Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Free: http://ccnbook.colorado.edu
Future AI risk: Bostrom and Harris TED talks

Kosslyn, S. M. & Koenig, O. (1995). Wet Mind: The new cognitive neuroscience. (octopus example) pp.18-35.
pp.111-113 of Gazzaniga, Ivry, & Mangun (2014) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind, 4th edition. Available on 2-hour loan at the USyd library.

In Carlson, Physiology of Behavior:

p.2 case study, pp.7-9 on unilateral neglect, on eLearning, Alex’s lectures folder
pp.203-11 on perception of spatial location and parietal cortex, on eLearning, Alex’s lectures folder
The Transformations bit of Tutis Vilis’ senses animations. Click on Muscle Sense, Animated Flash version. It may take a while to download. At the bottom of the next screen, click on Transformations.

Neglect and the parietal lobe:

The Coordinates and the Neglect bits of Tutis Vilis’ Association Areas. Click on Coordinates, and when you’re done with that, click on Neglect. It’s Flash, so it’ll only work if the previous one works.
pp.273-280 of Gazzaniga, Ivry, & Mangun (2014) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind, 4th edition. Available at the USyd library. Describes most of the studies mentioned in lecture.
For general overview: Bartolomeo, P. (2007). Visual neglect. Current opinion in neurology, 20(4), 381–6. Get it by going through the library website for the journal.
Includes a bit about object-based representation: Buxbaum, L. J. (2006). On the right (and left) track: Twenty years of progress in studying hemispatial neglect. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(1), 184–201. Get it by going through the library website for the journal.

Ramachandran V.S. and Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain