Artificial Cognitive Systems

Here are some links to resources that are relevant for my course on Artificial Cognitive Systems on my main website.
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Symposia and Workshops

Virtual International Symposium on Cognitive Architecture (VISCA 2021), with videos and slides, including a session on robot cognitive architectures.
Cognitive Architectures for Robot Agents, with videos.

Videos

iCub Explained
Automata: movement and states of consciousness. Compelling demonstrations of the impact of motion on the way humans understand other agents.
Cognitive Architectures for Robot Agents: a collection of 15 talks from leading experts
Elizabeth Spelke's talk on Core Knowledge of Number and Geometry at the inaugural meeting of euCognition in 2006
Daniel Wolpert TED Talk on the real reason for brains
Videos from the Warneken and Tomasello (2006) paper on altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees: Science, 311, 1301-1303.

Research Challenges

Social Cognition for Human-Robot Symbiosis—Challenges and Building Blocks

Surveys

40 years of cognitive architectures: core cognitive abilities and practical applications
Companion website for 40 years of cognitive architectures: core cognitive abilities and practical applications
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society (BICA) comparison of 25 cognitive architectures A Framework for Comparing Agent Architectures A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part II: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures

Educational Resources

MIT Open Courseware: Computational Cognitive Science
MIT Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) Science of Intelligence Learning Hub
Cognitive Systems Outreach coordinated by Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, UK.

Definitions of Cognition

Over 40 Definitions of Cognition (it has proved difficult to define cognition and it is worth reading Aaron Sloman's argument that it isn't worth trying)
A definition of a cognitive system from the Springer Reference Guide to Computer Vision
What is Cognition? in Current Biology 29, R603-R622, 2019

White Papers

Cognitive Behavior of Humans, Animals, and Machines: Situation Model Perspectives
Computing, cognition and the future of knowing John Kelly, Senior Vice President, IBM Research and Solutions Portfolio.
Action selection for Intelligent Systems, Cyril Brom, Charles University, Prague, and Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, UK.

Classic Papers

Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men (if you are short of time, read the first paragraph and then the text at the end, after the last figure)

Tutorials and Resources

Tutorial on Embodiment: a wide-ranging summary of the main aspects of this discipline, from cognitivist AI right through to embodied emergent cognition, by Matej Hoffmann, Dorit Assaf, and Rolf Pfeifer at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Informatics, University of Zurich
Books and articles related to embodiment
Situated / Embedded / Extended Cognition Resources: material provided by William Rapaport, University at Buffalo - State University of New York, for a course on cognitive science.
Tutorial on Autpoiesis, Autonomy, and Enactive Cognitive Science by Randall Whittaker
Teaching Material for the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture by William G. Kennedy
Dynamic Field Theory
Developing Dynamic Field Theory Architectures for Embodied Cognitive Systems with cedar

Journals

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Cognitive Systems Research
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Constructivist Foundations
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Advances in Cognitive Systems

Books

Cognitive Architectures by M. Ferreira, J. Sequeira, and R. Ventura (Eds.)
Human-Robot Interaction - An Introduction An online textbook by C. Bartneck, T. Belpaeme, F. Eyssel, T. Kanda, M. Keijsers, and S. Šabanović

Research Networks and Societies

TC-CORO: IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics
euCognition: European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems. This network was the first in a series of three networks, culminating in EUCog below.
EUCog: European Society for Cognitive Systems
BICA: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society
ESSCS: European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems

Degrees in Cognitive Systems

The following is a sample of the Master-level degrees that are available in cognitive systems. If you know of other degree programs that you think I should feature here, please send me an email (the address is on my website).

Open University of Cyprus and University of Cyprus Joint Master's Degree Program in Cognitive Systems (120 ECTS)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain: Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (60 ECTS)
Technical University of Munich: Robotics, Cognition, and Intelligence
University of Warwick: M.Sc. in Cognitive Systems
University of Zurich: Master of Science in Informatics - Multimodal and Cognitive Systems

Business Issues

Artificial Intelligence for the Real World A Harvard Business Review perspective on using artificial cognitive capabilities in business.