I am currently a senior research fellow at Plymouth University working on the I-TALK project.
I am also secretary for the International Society for Adaptive Behaviour (ISAB)
My primary research interests are theories and robotic models of sensorimotor / affordance learning, in particular how experience shapes perceptual abilities in an integrated cognitive system, and how social interaction scaffolds this process. This draws heavily on sensorimotor theories of enaction, perception, and affordances, and provides a bridge between biology and psychology. To date my practical focus has been on the development and integration of models of biological systems exhibiting psychological phenomena. While my theoretical work highlights the importance of affordances discovered through embodied sensorimotor interaction which subsequently shape the development of an agent. Through understanding these processes we can begin to bridge the explanatory gap between biological and psychological levels of description.
You can see some of my recent work here...
