I have developed "tennis elbow" from lugging this book around the past four weeks, but it is worth the pain, the effort, and the aspirin. It is also worth the (relatively speaking) bargain price. Including appendixes, this book contains 894 pages of text. The entire panorama of the neural sciences is surveyed and examined, and it is comprehensive in its scope, from genomes to social behaviors. The editors explicitly state that the book is designed as "an introductory text for students of biology, behavior, and medicine," but it is hard to imagine any audience, interested in any fragment of neuroscience at any level of sophistication, that would not enjoy this book. The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or

Principles of Neural Science

The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory

problems in addition to the signs of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Many of the patients were closely examined over long periods and the authors make the point that repeated examinations for as long as ten years in some instances allowed them to describe the natural history of the syndrome. and this they do in their third chapter. Again the description of the pathological findings is precise and comprehensive and the authors stress the periventricular distribution of the lesions and their bilateral symmetry. The authors consider specifically the neuropathological substrate on which are based the defective memory, ocular motor signs, the ataxia, the global confusional state and the occasional disturbance of olfactory and gustatory function. They argue a unity between Wernicke's disease and Korsakoff's psychosis and discuss the relationship between these two and alcoholic cerebellar degeneration, central pontine myelinolysis and other myelinolytic syndromes and interestingly discuss the problem of \"alcoholic dementia\" concluding that the nosological status ofalcoholic dementia is by

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/jnnp/52/10/1218.2.full.pdf

Neuropsychology Mental Structure

http://manmachine.org/brd/publications/duffy-anthropomorphismSocialRobots.pdf

Anthropomorphism and the social robot

https://people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/GratchMarsellaCOGSYS04.pdf

A domain-independent framework for modeling emotion

The field of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIA) is a fast growing and increasingly important area that comprises highly active research activities and strongly interdisciplinary approaches. Socially Intelligent Agents, edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn, Alan Bond, Lola Caamero and Bruce Edmonds, emerged from the AAAI Symposium "Socially Intelligent Agents - The Human in the Loop". The book provides 32 chapters, written by leading SIA researchers, addressing topics such as: social robotics, embodied conversational agents, affective computing, anthropomorphism, narrative and story-telling, social aspects in multi-agent systems, new technologies for education and therapy, and more. This breadth of topics covered in Socially Intelligent Agents provides the reader with a comprehensive look at current research activities in the area. Socially Intelligent Agents serves as an excellent reference for a wide readership, e.g. computer scientists, roboticists, web programmers and designers, computer users, cognitive scientists, and other researchers interested in the study of how humans relate to computers and robots, and how these agents in return can relate to humans. This book is also suitable as research material in a variety of advanced level courses, including Applied Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Agents, Human-Computer Interaction, Situated, Embodied AI.

Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships With Computers And Robots

An information-processing analysis of the functional architecture of the primate neocortex.

A system model of the primate neocortex is presented, based mainly on the neuroanatomy of the rhesus macaque monkey and consisting of a set of processing modules arranged as a perception-action hierarchy. These modules correspond to regions of the neocortex and their connectivity to that of the neocortex. A computational approach based on predicate logic is explained, and the results of a computer implementation of the model are reported, which demonstrate social behaviors involving affiliation and social conflict. The behavioral states of primates involved in these behaviors can be represented by the states of the system model, which have a logical representation and a diagrammatic form. It is shown how the behavioral states in goal-directed behaviors can be represented and also their short term moment-to-moment development in time. It is then shown how the state of social interaction among two or more primates can be represented, using their individual behavioral states, with interindividual action and perception. The causal dynamics of behavioral states is explained and also a control mechanism, namely, the use of confirmation signals, which stabilizes behavioral states and their dynamics. Stabilized behavioral states are seen as corresponding to coherent activations of the system, resulting from successful selection of module activations and intermodule communication with confirmation.

Alan H. Bond

Papers

Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships With Computers And Robots

An information-processing analysis of the functional architecture of the primate neocortex.

Describing behavioral states using a system model of the primate brain.

A computational model for the primate neocortex based on its functional architecture.

A psycholinguistically and neurolinguistically plausible system-level model of natural-language syntax processing