Presentations
'Beyond the Tropic Approach in Attachment Modelling', presented at Imperial
College, London, June 2013,
(talk abstract)
'Epistemic Actions and the Origin of the Socially Extended Mind,'
presented at
the AISB symposium on Reconceiving Mental Illness,
2013, (co-authored with Everett
Waters)
pdf
file available here. Full
paper available from
my publications
page
'Next generation teachers as artists, engineers and diagnosticians'. Seminar
presentation for Human Computer Interaction Series, School of Computer
Science, University of Birmingham, January 2012.
'Loss of Control Arising From Public Passions and Hidden Agendas' presented
at symposium: 'From Animals to Robots
and Back: reflections on hard problems in the study of cognition'. September
2011, University of Birmingham.
'AI, Attachment Theory and Simulating Secure Base Behaviour: Dr Bowlby
meet the Rev. Bayes,' presented at
the AISB symposium on AI Inspired Biology, 2010, (co-authored with Everett
Waters)
powerpoint
file available here. Full
paper available from
my publications
page
Journal Club presentation in February 2009 for Sensory and Perceptual
Systems Group (Neurosciences Institute, Aston University). Review of:
Attention, spatial representation and visual neglect: Simulating emergent
attention and spatial memory in the Selective Attention for Identification
Model (SAIM). Psychological Review, 110 (1): 29-87
Journal Club presentation in September 2008 for Sensory and Perceptual
Systems Group (Neurosciences Institute, Aston University). Review of:
A Theory of the Discovery and Predication of Relational Concepts (Doumas,
L.A.A., Hummel, J.E., and Sandhofer, C.M. Psychological Review 2008, 115,
1, 1-43)
Journal Club presentation in March 2008 for Sensory and Perceptual
Systems Group (Neurosciences Institute, Aston University). Review of:
Discrimination of possible and impossible objects in infancy, (Shuwairi, S.M., Albert, M.K., and Johnson, S.P., Psychological Science, 18, (2007) 4,
303-307)
Journal Club presentation in December 2007 for Sensory and Perceptual
Systems Group (Neurosciences Institute, Aston University). Review of:
Multidimensional shape similarity in the development of visual object
classification." (Mash, Journal of Exp Child Psy., 95, (2006), 128-152
Journal Club presentation in October 2007 at Centre for Cognition,
Computation and Culture, (Goldsmiths College). Review of: "Complementary
Solutions to the Binding Problem in Vision: Implications for shape
perception and object recognition" (Hummel Vis. Cog. 8, 2001)
Journal Club presentation in September 2007 at Centre for Cognition,
Computation and Culture, (Goldsmiths College). Review of the Greebles
literature.
(word doc with bibliography of
the greebles literature covered in the talk)
Journal Club presentation in June 2007 for Sensory and Perceptual Systems
group
(Neurosciences Institute, Aston University). Review of: "Becoming a face
expert" (Mondloch, Maurer, and Ahola, Psy. Sci. 17, 2006).
Designing agents to Understand Infants: An Overview of my thesis, June 2006,
Developmental Psychology seminar
in a pdf file
in a powerpoint file
Interacting agent based systems (a talk to undergraduates as a guest lecture
on
the
Introduction to AI module, October 2005)
in a pdf file
Loss of self-control of attentive processes - Mechanisms
and
possible adaptive
function
- May 2004 Language
and Cognition
seminar
in a pdf file
Simulating Infant-carer relationship dynamics, presented at the AAAI spring
symposium
at Stanford in March 2004,
in a pdf file
Do explanations of attachment behaviour in one year olds need to
include mechanisms of executive function? -
Feb 2004, Language and cognition
seminar
in a pdf file
The Selection of Goals and Actions in the Attachment System -
July
2003,
in a pdf file
in a powerpoint file