Posts in 2014
Understanding and Addressing Cultural Variation in Costly Antisocial Punishment (pdf)

Joanna J. Bryson, James Mitchell, Simon T. Powers, and Karolina Sylwester, in Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues, Gibson & Lawson (eds.), Springer, 2014.

This book follows from a workshop. Here is a free version of the chapter, the revised draft from May 2013. See further our Cultural Variation in Costly Punishment project page. Note: Google Scholar managed to find a USAF white paper derived from our final report by the same title which has a lot of irrelevant detail and a couple theoretical errors we’ve since discovered. The book chapter is 15 months more recent.

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2014ScienceSitesCultural Variation in Cooperation, Evolving Human-Like Culture, Origins and Nature of Cognition
Evolving Evolvability in the Context of Environmental Change: A Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) Approach

Yifei Wang, Stephen G. Matthews and Joanna J. Bryson, Artificial Life 2014.

Interesting for both biology & machine learning, looks at the role of a potentially-hierarchical network representation in the genome for handling semi-predictable environmental change. Final version is open access, because computer science has archival conferences.

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2014ScienceSitesOrigins and Nature of Cognition
The Extended Ramp Goal Module: Low-Cost Behaviour Arbitration for Real-Time Controllers based on Biological Models of Dopamine Cells

Swen E. Gaudl and Joanna J. Bryson, from the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) 26-29 August 2014 in Dortmund.

Swen Gaudl has been working on improving the emotional / durative action selection work I started with Emmanuel Tanguy (see below.) Swen’s published two papers on his new Extended Ramp Goal (ERGo) model. See also: A Biomimetic Model of Behaviour Arbitration for Lightweight Cognitive Architectures, Swen E. Gaudl and Joanna J. Bryson, to appear in Philosophy and Computers, a newsletter of the American Philosophical Association (Peter Boltuc, ed.).

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The Role of Stability in Cultural Evolution: Innovation and Conformity in Implicit Knowledge Discovery

Joanna J. Bryson, book chapter in Perspectives on Culture and Agent-Based Simulations, Virginia and Frank Dignum, (eds), Springer, Berlin 2014.

Some simple simulations of culture and modularity showing interesting stability effects, inspired by a talk Dan Sperber gave in 2008. Open access draft from 2010. Open source netlogo model described in the paper on the AmonI Software Page.

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2014ScienceSitesOrigins and Nature of Cognition, Evolving Human-Like Culture
The Conceptualisation of Emotion Qualia: Semantic Clustering of Emotional Tweets

Eugene Y. Bann and Joanna J. Bryson, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW) which actually took place in July 2012, but finally got published in 2014 (Julien Mayor, ed.).

A chapter length description of our attempt to use social media as a source for a more accurate portrayal of the space of human emotions. Derived from Eugene Bann’s undergraduate dissertation. A more recent paper by the same authors on a related topic came out in 2013 ...

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2014ScienceSitesOrigins and Nature of Cognition, Emotions and Affect