References
A number of publications are available for download as PDF files. These documents are late drafts of the documents, for final versions please refer to the published source.
Books
Coward,
L.
A.
(2005). A
System
Architecture Approach to the Brain: from Neurons to
Consciousness, New York: Nova.
in paperback
Coward,
L.
A.
(1990). Pattern
Thinking, New York: Praeger.
Coward, L. A. (2011).
Modelling Memory and Learning Consistently from Psychology to
Physiology. In V. Cutsuridi, H. Amir, J. Taylor (eds.),
Perception-Action Cycle: Models, Architectures, and Hardware, pp 52 –
123. Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems. pdf
Coward,
L. A. and Salingaros, N. A. (2005). The Information Architecture of
Cities. In N. A. Salingaros (ed). Principles of Urban Structure.
Amsterdam, Holland: Techne Press.
Coward, L. A. and Sun, R. (2002). Explaining Consciousness on Multiple Levels. in Serge P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in Psychology 14, 51 - 86.
Coward, L.A. (1999). A physiologically based theory of consciousness, in Jordan, S. (ed.), Modeling Consciousness Across the Disciplines, pp 113-178, Maryland: UPA. pdf
Coward, L.A. (1999). The Recommendation Functional Architecture as the Basis for a Physiological Understanding of Cognition, in Riegler, A. and Peschl, M. (eds.) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences, 91 - 105, Plenum Press. pdf
Journal Papers
Coward, L. A. (2010). The Hippocampal System as the Cortical Resource Manager: a model connecting psychology, anatomy and physiology. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 657, 315 - 364. pdf
Coward,
L. A. and Gedeon, T. O. (2009). Implications of Resource Limitations
for a Conscious Machine. Neurocomputing 72, 767 - 788. pdf
Coward, L. A. and Sun, R. (2007).
Hierarchical Approaches to Understanding Consciousness. Neural Networks
20(9), 947 - 954. pdf
Sun, R., Coward, L. A. and Zenzen, M. J. (2005). On Levels of Cognitive Modeling. Philosophical Psychology 18(5), 613 - 637. pdf
Coward,
L.A. and Sun, R. (2004). Some Criteria for an Effective Scientific
Theory of Consciousness and Examples of Preliminary Attempts at Such a
Theory. Consciousness and Cognition 13(2), 268 - 301. pdf
Coward, L. A. and Salingaros, N. A. (2004). An Information Architecture Approach to Understanding Cities. Journal of Information Science 30(2), 107 - 118. pdf
Coward, L. A. (2003). General Constraints on the Architectures of Functionally Complex Learning Systems: Implications for Understanding Human Memory. In B. Kokinov and W. Hirst, (Eds.). Constructive Memory, NBU Series in Cognitive Science. pdf
Coward, L.A., Gedeon, T. and Kenworthy, W. (2001). Application of the Recommendation Architecture to Telecommunications Network Management, International Journal of Neural Systems 11(4), 323-327. pdf
Coward, L.A. (2001). The Recommendation Architecture: lessons from the design of large scale electronic systems for cognitive science. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research 2(2), 111-156. pdf
Coward,
L.A. (2000). A Functional Architecture Approach to Neural
Systems.
International Journal of Systems Research and Information Systems, 9,
69 - 120. pdf
Coward, L.A. and Gedeon, T. (2000). Optimization of Architectural Parameters in a Simulated Recommendation Architecture, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence. pdf
Coward, L.A. (1999). A physiologically based approach to consciousness, New Ideas in Psychology, 17 (3), 271-290. pdfConference Papers
Coward, L. A. (2009). The Hippocampal System as the Manager of Neocortical Declarative Memory Resources. Proceedings of NCPW11. pdfCoward, L. A., Gedeon, T. D. and Ratanayake, U. (2004). Learning Complex Combinations of Operations. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. pdf
Coward, L. A., Gedeon, T. D. and Ratanayake, U. (2004). Managing Interference between Prior and Later learning. Proceedings of International Conference On Neural Information Processing, Calcutta. pdf
Coward, L. A. (2004). Simulation of a Proposed Binding Model. Proceedings of Workshop on Information Coding in Early Sensory Stages, BICS 2004, University of Stirling, Scotland. pdf
Coward,
L. A. (2003). General Constraints on the Architectures of Functionally
Complex Learning Systems: Implications for Understanding Human Memory.
In B. Kokinov and W. Hirst, (Eds.). Constructive Memory, NBU
Series in
Cognitive Science. pdf
Coward,
L.A. (2000). Modeling Cognitive Processes with the Recommendation
Architecture. Proceedings of the 18th Twente Workshop on Language
Theory, pages 47-67. University of Twente: Enschede. pdf
Gedeon, T., Coward, L. A., and Bailing, Z. (1999). Results of Simulations of a System with the Recommendation Architecture, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Volume I, pp 78-84. pdf
Coward,
L.A. (1997). Unguided Categorization, Direct and Symbolic
Representation, and Evolution of Cognition in a Modified Connectionist
Theory, in Riegler, A. and Peschl, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the
International Conference New Trends in Cognitive Science, 139-146,
Vienna: Austrian Society of Cognitive Science. pdf
Coward, L. A. (1997). The Pattern Extraction Hierarchy Architecture: a Connectionist Alternative to the von Neumann Architecture, in Mira., J., Morenzo-Diaz, R., and Cabestanz, J. (eds.) Biological and Artificial Computation: from Neuroscience to Technology, 634-43, Berlin: Springer. pdf