New paper in PLoS ONE on chimpanzee planning
A new paper has been published by Mathias Osvath and Elin Karvonen: Spontaneous Innovation for Future Deception in a Male
Chimpanzee. Freely downloadable from PLoS ONE.
New doctor in cognitive science
Language and Vision. Using visual information in real-world language situations. On April 20th Richard Andersson successfully defended his phd thesis.
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Research at LUCS on Swedish national television.
Both the corvid research and robot research at LUCS was highlighted on Swedish national television on “Vetenskapens värld” (a science magazine). The video will be available until the 22nd of May, 2012 here: http://svtplay.se/t/102814/vetenskapens_varld. If you want to go directly to the part about the research at LUCS you should …
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CONCEPTUAL SPACES AT WORK, 24-26 MAY 2012
This three day international conference brings together scholars who engage in the theoretical refinement of the Conceptual Spaces model, apply it to new phenomena, and improve on intended applications. Next to the dissemination of “success-cases,” the purpose is to demonstrate the model’s impact on the community, to investigate avenues for future …
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How does evolution work? Episode 5
In episode 5 Jesper teaches you everything about our primate family tree (In Swedish)
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LUCS figures in Lund University Magazine no 8, 2011
Three articles on LUCS related research about pedagogy and education (in Swedish)
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How to Motivate Students
Peter Gärdenfors talks about student motivation, curiosity and the lust of understanding at TEDx in Norrköping September 2011.
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Mental imagery research at LUCS
Often when reading a good book, part of the thrill are the environments that you create in your mind as the story unfoldes. This is an example of mental imagery; the ability that we have to see images before our inner eye. This ability comes in handy in problemsolving, for …
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LUCSOR II & III [1998 & 2004]
LUCSOR II was built in by Lars Kopp as a replacement for the old LUCSOR robot...
The LUCS Stereo Head 2 [1997]
The LUCS Stereo Head was constructed by Christian Balkenius and Lars Kopp during 1997 and is...
Doug [1995]
A four-legged robot constructed by Christian Balkenius and Lars Kopp. The design was really too heavy...
The LUCS Stereo Head [1995]
The LUCS Stereo Head was constructed by Christian Balkenius and Lars Kopp during 1995 and was...
POLUCS [1995]
POLUCS was constructed by Christian Balkenius and Lars Kopp in 1995 and is the second mobile...
LUCSOR [1994]
Lund University Cognitive Science Orienting Robot (LUCSOR) was developed by Christian Balkenius and Lars Kopp during...
BERRY IV [1993]
BERRY IV was constructed by Christian Balkenius and Lars Kopp during 1993 and was our first...
Zero the Hero [1992]
This robot is the result of our first attempt to build something resembling a mobile robot....