Emulation and Cognition

No Cognition without Representation? Dynamical Computationalism and the Emulation Theory of Representation

The dynamical hypothesis threatens computationalism and its commitment to mental representations: the continuous, reciprocally causative nature of cognition renders impossible such an analysis. Andy Clark and Rick Grush have suggested a hybrid approach that models cog-nitive systems using dynamical systems theory but employs mental representation via emulation to aid its explanations. I will ca...

Title: Is Cognition a Matter of Representations?: Emulation, Teleology, and Time-keeping in Biological Systems Running Title: Cognition, Representation and Time-keeping

Random gravitational emulation search algorithm (RGES (in scheduling traveling salesman problem

this article proposes a new algorithm for finding a good approximate set of non-dominated solutions for solving generalized traveling salesman problem. Random gravitational emulation search algorithm (RGES (is presented for solving traveling salesman problem. The algorithm based on random search concepts, and uses two parameters, speed and force of gravity in physics. The proposed algorithm is ...

The cognitive structure of goal emulation during the preschool years.

Humans excel at mirroring both others' actions (imitation) as well as others' goals and intentions (emulation). As most research has focused on imitation, here we focus on how social and asocial learning predict the development of goal emulation. We tested 215 preschool children on two social conditions (imitation, emulation) and two asocial conditions (trial-and-error and recall) using two tou...

Secure Collaborative Spectrum Sensing in the Presence of Primary User Emulation Attack in Cognitive Radio Networks

Collaborative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) is an effective approach to improve the detection performance in Cognitive Radio (CR) networks. Inherent characteristics of the CR have imposed some additional security threats to the networks. One of the common threats is Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA). In PUEA, some malicious users try to imitate primary signal characteristics and defraud the CR user...