Randy O’Reilly explaining how neurons detect things, and introducing Pandemonium
Randy O’Reilly explaining Pandemonium
Randy O’Reilly on neurons are in the dark (7 min)
The 2015 state of the art for robots manipulating things in a somewhat real-world environment. The DRC Finals , Video
If you forgot what logarithms are; this is purely for interpreting one of the graphs in lecture.
“early AI researchers made a big mistake: they thought intelligence was stuff they found hard to do” - Rodney Brooks video
When robots are better than humans. Tesla car factory
The epic struggle to climb stairs
Advanced conventional computer architecture. Much more complicated than the simple separation of computation and memory, with one-at-a-time execution instruction that I showed in lecture, but still they’re largely separate.
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) Available from Canvas
pp.111-114 of Gazzaniga, Ivry, & Mangun (2014) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind, 4th edition. Available from Canvas.
On Canvas:Reading List, “Carlson, 2010 excerpts” (Neil Carlson, not Tom Carlson!), Physiology of Behavior 10th edition:
p.2 case study, pp.7-10 on unilateral neglect
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 on this page. If “Animated Html” works for you, 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 instead of the HTML.
The first three minutes of SciShow’s Hemispatial neglect video - covers symptoms and the Bisiach & Luzzatti (1978) study
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