Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008

1. Effects of Stimuli Intensity and Frequency on Auditory P50 and N100 Sensory Gating
Gaëlle Spielmann Moura, Yolanda Triñanes-Pego, Maria T. Carrillo-de-la-Peña

2. On Building a Memory Evolutive System for Application to Learning and Cognition Modeling
Julio Lima do Rego Monteiro, Joao Eduardo Kogler, Joao Henrique Ranhel Ribeiro, Marcio Lobo Netto

3. Agent-Based Cognitive Model for Human Resources Competence Management
Stefan Oliveira, João Carlos Gluz

4. Neural Accumulator Models of Decision Making in Eye Movements
Vassilis Cutsuridis

5. On Building Meaning: A Biologically-Inspired Experiment on Symbol-Based Communication
Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin, Sidarta Ribeiro, João Queiroz

6. Perception-Action Learning as an Epistemologically-Consistent Model for Self-Updating Cognitive Representation
David Windridge, Josef Kittler

7. Detection of Auditory Cortex Activity by fMRI Using a Dependent Component Analysis
Carlos A. Estombelo-Montesco, Marcio Sturzbecher, Allan K. D. Barros, Draulio B. Araujo

8. Brain–Computer Interface Using Wavelet Transformation and Naïve Bayes Classifier
Thiago Bassani, Julio Cesar Nievola

9. Neuromorphic Systems: Past, Present and Future
Leslie S. Smith

10. Genetic Algorithm Applied to Hierarchically Coupled Associative Memories
Rogério Martins Gomes, Antônio Pádua Braga, Henrique E. Borges

11. Vector Quantization of Speech Frames Based on Self-Organizing Maps
Flávio Olmos Simões, Mário Uliani Neto, Jeremias Barbosa Machado, Edson José Nagle, Fernando Oscar Runstein, Leandro Campos Teixeira Gomes

12. The Use of Bayesian Networks for Heart Beat Classification
Lorena Sophia Campos Oliveira, Rodrigo Varejão Andreão, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho

13. A Histogram Based Method for Multiclass Classification Using SVMs
Sandro Tomassoni Coelho, Carlos Alberto Ynoguti

14. A Functional Approach to Emotion in Autonomous Systems
Ricardo Sanz, Carlos Hernández, Jaime Gómez, Adolfo Hernando

15. A Robot Architecture Based on Higher Order Perception Loop
Antonio Chella

16. The Consciousness Circuit – An Approach to the Hard Problem
Sulamita Frohlich, Carlos A. Franco

17. Computational Consciousness: Building a Self-Preserving Organism
Allan Kardec Barros

18. The Hippocampal System as the Cortical Resource Manager: A Model Connecting Psychology, Anatomy and Physiology
L. Andrew Coward

19. Cognitive Measure on Different Profiles
Marilda Spindola, Giovani Carra, Alexandre Balbinot, Milton A. Zaro

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Computation by Abstract Devices, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Signal, Image and Speech Processing