Areas of expertise
- Decision Making 170202
- Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance 170112
- Knowledge Representation And Machine Learning 170203
- Conceptual Modelling 080603
- Neural, Evolutionary And Fuzzy Computation 080108
- Information Systems Development Methodologies 080608
- Other Psychology And Cognitive Sciences 1799
- Cognitive Sciences 1702
Research interests
Understanding human cognitive phenomena in terms of anatomy, physiology and neurochemistry.
Electronic modelling cognitive phenomena in physiologically realistic ways.
Publications
- Coward, L & Gedeon, T 2016, 'Using the Change Manager Model for the Hippocampal System to Predict Connectivity and Neurophysiological Parameters in the Perirhinal Cortex', Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2016, no. Article ID 8625875, pp. 13 pages.
- Coward, L 2014, 'Brain computational primitives', Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, BICA 2014, ed. Ich A.V, Robertson P, Elsevier, TBC, pp. 164-175.
- Coward, L 2013, Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht Netherlands.
- Coward, L 2011, 'Modelling Memory and Learning Consistently from Psychology to Physiology', in V. Cutsuridis, A. Hussain and J. G. Taylor (ed.), Perception-Action Cycle: Models, Architecture and Hardware, Springer Science+Business Media, New York USA, pp. 63 - 133pp.
- Coward, L 2011, 'Brain Anatomy and Artificial Intelligence', Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2011), ed. Schmidhuber, Jürgen; Thorisson, Kristinn R.; Looks, Moshe, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 255-268.
- Coward, L & Gedeon, T 2011, 'Architectures of complex learning systems', Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2011, IOS Press, Arlington Virginia USA, pp. 79-87.
- Coward, L 2010, 'The Hippocampal System as the Cortical Resource Manager: A Model Connecting Psychology, Anatomy and Physiology', Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol. 657, pp. 315-364.
- Coward, L 2010, 'Management of the Neocortex Resources as the Primary Role of the Hippocampal System', Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), ed. A. Hussain, A. K. Barros, I. Aleksander, R. Chrisley, L. S. Smith, V. Cutsuridis, Springer Science + Business Media, New York USA, pp. 315 - 364.
- Coward, L 2008, 'The Hippocampal System as the Manager of Neocortical Declarative Memory Resources', 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW11), ed. J. Mayor, N. Ruh and K. Plunkett, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 67 - 78.
- Coward, L 2006, 'Constraints n the Design Process for Systems with Human Level Intelligence', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2006, IJCNN 06, IEEE, TBC, pp. 427 - 434.
- Coward, L 2004, 'Modeling Cognitive Development in the Human Brain', International Conference on Development and Learning, ed. J. Triesch and T. Jebara, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation, San Diego, United States, pp. 198 - 205pp.
- Coward, L, Gedeon, T & Ratnayake, U 2004, 'Algorithms for Learning Complex Combinations of Operations', IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2004), ed. Jacek Zurada, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 923-928pp.
- Coward, L 2004, 'Simulation of a Proposed Binding Model', 1st International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) 2004, ed. L. S. Smith, A. Hussain, I. Aleksander, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, p. 7.
- Coward, L & Gedeon, T 2009, 'Implications of resource limitations for a conscious machine', Neurocomputing, vol. 72, pp. 767-788.
- Coward, L 2009, 'The Hippocampal System as the Cortical Resource Manager: a model connecting psychology, anatomy and physiology', in V. Cutsuridis et al (ed.), Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Springer, New York, pp. 315-364.
- Coward, L & Sun, R 2007, 'Hierarchical Approaches to Understanding Consciousness', Neural Networks, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 947-954.
- Salingaros, N & Coward, L 2005, 'The Information Architecture of Cities', in Nikos A Salingaros (ed.), Principles of Urban Structure, Techne Press, Amsterdam, Holland, p. 10.
- Coward, L 2005, A System Architecture Approach to the Brain: from Neurons to Consciousness, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York.
- Coward, L & Gedeon, T 2005, 'Physiological Representation of Concepts in the Brain', International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (AKRR 2005), ed. Tomo Honkela, Ville Kononen, Matti Polla and Olli Simula, Conference Organising Committee, Espoo, Finland, pp. 154-160.
- Coward, L 2005, 'Accounting for Episodic, Semantic and Procedural Memory in the Recommendation Architecture Cognitive Model', in Angelo Cangelosi, Guido Bugman, Roman Borisyuk (ed.), Modeling Language, Cognition and Action, World Scientific Publishing Company, University of Plymouth, UK, pp. 311-320.
- Sun, R, Coward, L & Zenzen, M 2005, 'On Levels of Cognitive Modeling', Philosophical Psychology, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 613-637.
- Coward, L & Sun, R 2004, 'Criteria for an effective theory of consciousness and some preliminary attempts.', Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 268-301.
- Coward, L, Gedeon, T & Ratanayake, U 2004, 'Managing Interference Between Prior and Later Learning', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 63, pp. 458-463.
- Coward, L & Salingaros, N 2004, 'The Information Architecture of Cities', Journal of Information Science, vol. 30, pp. 107-118.
- Coward, L, Gedeon, T & Ratnayake, U 2004, 'Learning complex combinations of operations in a hybrid architecture', IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2004), ed. Jacek Zurada, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 923-928.
