Brief Biography
Professor Angelo Cangelosi leads the "Adaptive behaviour & Cognition" research group in the School of Computing, Communications and Electronics. His main interest is in the area of language modelling and cognitive robotics, with projects ranging from simulation models of the evolution of communication, to robotic model of language acquisition and human-robot interaction, neural network models of spatial language and quantifiers, and models for the evolution of morphology and embodied cognition. The main epistemological approach underlying his research is the study of natural cognitive systems (e.g. animal, humans babies and adults) to inform the design of cognitive and linguistic capabilities in artificial systems (e.g. robots and intelligent agents). Prof. Cangelosi has produced numerous publications in the top raking artificial intelligence and cognitive science journals, is associated editor of the journals "Connection Science" and "Frontiers in Neurorobotics", and editorial board member for the journals "Interaction Studies", and "Journal of Neurolinguitics", and has chaired various international conferences such as the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Rome, 2006) and the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (Plymouth, 2004). He has also co-edited four volumes including Simulating the Evolution of Language (Springer, 2002) and Modeling Language Cognition and Action (World Scientific 2005).