Natural systems exhibit diverse behavior generated by complex interactions between their
constituent parts. To characterize these interactions, we introduce Convergent Cross Sorting (…

Robots are increasingly being used to monitor and even participate in social interactions
with animals in their own environments. Robotic animals enable social behaviors to be …

Complex behaviors demand temporal coordination among functionally distinct brain regions.
The basal forebrain’s afferent and efferent structure suggests a capacity for mediating this …

We have yet to develop a theory of explanation that will account for all of consciousness.
Recent debate on this topic has been impaired because it has in large part proceeded without …

The hippocampus is an important structure for learning and memory processes, and has
strong rhythmic activity. Although a large amount of research has been dedicated toward …

The basal forebrain comprises several heterogeneous neuronal subgroupings having
modular projection patterns to discrete sets of cortical subregions. Each cortical region forms …

While it has been hypothesized that adult neurogenesis (NG) plays a role in the encoding of
temporal information at long time-scales, the temporal relationship of immature cells to the …

Cholinergic, GABAergic and glutamatergic projection neurons of the basal forebrain (BF)
innervate widespread regions of the neocortex and are thought to modulate learning and …

The use of robots, as a social stimulus, provides several advantages over using another
animal. In particular, for rat-robot studies, robots can produce social behaviour that is …

Biorobotics has the potential to provide an integrated understanding from neural systems to
behavior that is neither ethical nor technically feasible with living systems. Robots that can …