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Adaptive Behavior publishes peer-reviewed articles on adaptive behavior in biological systems and autonomous artificial systems. It is the official journal of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB). The journal addresses topics such as perception and motor control, embodied cognition, learning and evolution, neural mechanisms, artificial intelligence, artificial life, coordination dynamics, evolutionary robotics, behavioral sequences, living technology... View full journal description

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Beyond Control: Finding the Purpose of Enactive Cognitive Science

  • Kathryn Nave
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A Framework for Interpersonal Synergy Research—Contexts, Theories, and Methods

  • Michael Kimmel
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Enactivism: Progressive, Pluralist—or Just Halfway Empiricism?

  • Matthew Crippen
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The Evolution of Homo: A Phenomenological Perspective on Tools and the Technological Mode of Being

  • Yochai Ataria
  • Itai Roffman
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On the Evolution, Science, and Metaphysics of Consciousness

  • Walter Veit
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Creativity: An Individual or Collective Phenomenon? A Historical-Psychological Perspective

  • Leonardo Barón-Birchenall
  • Andrea Sánchez-Vallejo
  • Carlos Toro-Silva
  • Andrea Folleco-Eraso
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Towards a view from within: The contribution of Francisco Varela to the study of consciousness

  • Renzo C Lanfranco
  • Andrés Canales-Johnson
  • Boris Lucero
  • Esteban Vargas
  • Valdas Noreika
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What affords being creative? Opportunities for novelty in light of perception, embodied activity, and imaginative skill

  • Michael Kimmel
  • Camilla Groth
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What affords being creative? Opportunities for novelty in light of perception, embodied activity, and imaginative skill

  • Michael Kimmel
  • Camilla Groth
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Dual Process Theory for Large Language Models: An overview of using Psychology to address hallucination and reliability issues

  • Samuel C Bellini-Leite
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Familiarity-taxis: A bilateral approach to view-based snapshot navigation

  • Fabian Steinbeck
  • Efstathios Kagioulis
  • Alex Dewar
  • Andrew Philippides
  • Thomas Nowotny
  • Paul Graham
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Stigmergic coordination and minimal cognition in plants

  • Ric Sims
  • Özlem Yilmaz
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