Published

Sims, M. (2024). The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms. Philosophy of Science, 91(2), 430–448.

Sims, M. (2023). Many Paths to Anticipatory Behavior:  Anticipatory Model Acquisition Across Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Timescales. Biol Theory 18, 114–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00426-w

Sims, M., Kiverstein, J. (2022). Externalized memory in slime mould and the extended (non-neuronal) mind. Cognitive Systems Research, 73, 26-35, 1389-0417,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.12.001.

Sims, M. (2021). A continuum of intentionality: linking the biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition. Biol Philos 36, 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09827-w

Sims, M. (2021). How to count biological minds: symbiosis, the free energy principle, and reciprocal multiscale integration. Synthese 199, 2157–2179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02876-w

Kiverstein, J., Sims, M. (2021). Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?. Biol Philos 36, 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09788-0

Sims, M. (2019). Minimal perception: Responding to the challenges of perceptual constancy and veridicality with plants. Philosophical Psychology, 32(7), 1024–1048. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2019.1646898

Wang, Q. (2024). Understanding plant movement: From kinematics to machine learning. (PhD Doctoral dissertation). Univerisity of Padova, Padova, Italy. Available from University of Padova IRIS database.

Wang, Q., Guerra, S., Bonato, B., Simonetti, V., Bulgheroni, M., & Castiello, U. (2023). Decision-making underlying support-searching in pea plants. Plants, 12(8), 1597.

Wang, Q., Barbariol, T., Susto, G. A., Bonato, B., Guerra, S., & Castiello, U. (2023). Classifying circumnutation in pea plants via supervised machine learning. Plants, 12(4), 965.

Wang, Q., Guerra, S., Ceccarini, F., Bonato, B., & Castiello, U. (2021). Sowing the seeds of intentionality: Motor intentions in plants. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 16(11). https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2021.1949818

 

 

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*Severs, L., *Wang, Q. Distance between decision-making and cognitive processes: insights from non-neural organisms.

*Severs, L., *Wang, Q. Decision-making as a cross-systems concept within neural and non-neural organisms.

Severs, L. Learning to be an agent: a cross-domain study of agency as learned behaviour within biological and artificial systems.

Severs, L. Functions of agency: comparative perspectives on learning, decision-making, and control.

Wang, Q. What does (ir)rational behaviour mean in non-neural species?: A comparative review.