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
The first of a series of vids on machine learning (the neural nets being used widely in industry, for everything from detecting cancer in x-rays to matching prospective romantic partners and personalizing marketing.
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
Kosslyn, S. M. & Koenig, O. (1995). Wet Mind: The new cognitive neuroscience. (octopus example) On Canvas eReserve
pp.111-113 of Gazzaniga, Ivry, & Mangun (2014) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind, 4th edition. Available from Canvas eReserve and at the USyd library.
On Canvas eReserve, “Carlson, 2010 excerpts” (not Tom Carlson, a different Carlson!), Physiology of Behavior 10th edition:
pp.206-11 on perception of spatial location and parietal cortex
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.
If it doesn’t work, just read the “Coordinate transformations” part of the PDF version and skim the rest of it.
Neglect and the parietal lobe:
The Coordinates and the Neglect bits of Tutis Vilis’ Association Cortex. Click on Coordinates, and when you’re done with that, click on Neglect. If it doesn’t work, just read the “Neglect” and “Coordinate frames” sections of the PDF.
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.
About the imagery and neglect study, here is a basic description of it from this:
The fact that some patients suffering from unilateral neglect also experience left representational neglect, affecting their imagery and their memory performance, was first reported by Bisiach & Luzzatti (1978), who asked two neglect patients to imagine being in the Piazza Del Duomo, a well known square in Milan, the patients’ native city, and to describe the buildings and other features around the square. (One of the patients was also questioned about the items in “the studio where he had spent most of his life,” with very similar results.) When asked to imagine that they were standing on the steps of the cathedral that is at one end of the Piazza, nearly all of the features mentioned, by both subjects, were ones that would have been to their right from that viewpoint, and very few things on the left were recalled. When asked to imagine standing at the opposite end of the square, facing the cathedral, most of the features they mentioned were ones on the other, previously neglected, side, which was now to their right. Presumably, the patients were forming a mental image of the Piazza, as viewed from the specified location, and attempting to read off the features around it from their imagery. Clearly knowledge of features on both sides (presumably mostly gained before they became ill) was in their memory, but they were unable to access all of it normally from their imagery.
Ramachandran V.S. and Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain