Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines

Index

Accept-and-hold circuit 51

Afterimage 96

Aleksander, I. ix, 196

Anterograde amnesia 143

Apparent motion illusion 95

Artificial Intelligence 1, 201

Artificial neural networks 4

Ashby, R. 4

Asimov, I. 198

Association

interference in 32

of vectors 17

Associative

evocation 17

function 17

learning 17

neural networks 17

neuron 19

neuron group 24

predictor 57

priming 105

Associator

bipolar binary 29

enhanced Hamming distance 30

enhanced simple binary 31

Hamming distance 30

linear 22

simple binary 26

with continuous values 28

Attention

auditory 99

inner 139, 174, 182

visual 86

Attention 139

Auditory

front-back ambiguity 110

motion detection 111

perception 98

scene 98

spectrum analysis 99

Baars, B. J. ix, 188, 189

Background information 138, 173, 174

Background knowledge 160

Bed-time story reading effect 189

Biederman, I. 71

Binocular distance estimation 93

Bregman, A. S. 98

Cartesian theater 10

Chalmers, D. J. 190

Change blindness 81

Chrisley, R. ix

Churchland, P. S. 22, 43

Classification 18, 35, 70

Clowes, R. ix

Cognition

computational 3

dynamical systems 4

neural network 4

quantum model 5

Cognitive architecture 6, 179

Cognitive functions 179

Cognitive science 2, 140

Communication 9, 160

theory 160

robot-human 156

Comparison, of patterns 80

Connectionism 4

Consciousness 185

contents of 185

the hard problem of 190

Context 69, 71, 91, 103, 138, 139, 160, 174

Corollary discharge 96, 192

Damasio, A. R. 149, 191

Davis, D. N. 149

Deduction

by exclusion 147

causal 146

Delayed learning ...