Papers
2021
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Thornton, C. (2021). Predictive processing: does it
compute? In Mendon$\c{c}}$a, Curado and Gouveia (Eds.),
The philosophy and science of predictive processing
(pp. 141-156), London: Bloomsbury.
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Thornton, C. (2021). Extensional superposition and its
relation to compositionality in language and thought.
Cognitive Science, ??, No. ?? (pp. ??).
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2020
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Thornton, C. (2020). The meronomic model of cognitive
change, and its application to neolithic \c{C}atalh\"oy\"uk.
In Hodder (Ed.), Consciousness, Creativity, and Self
at the Dawn of Settled Life (pp. 153-167), Cambridge
University Press.
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2019
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Thornton, C. (2019). Does Conceptual Compositionality
Affect Language Complexity? Comment on Lou-Magnuson
and Onnis. Cognitive Science, 43, No.
8 (pp. 1-3). doi:10.1111/cogs.12772
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2017
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Thornton, C. (2017). Predictive processing simplified:
The infotropic machine. Brain \& Cognition, 112
(pp. 13-24).
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2014
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Thornton, C. (2014). Infotropism as the underlying principle
of perceptual organization. Journal of Mathematical
Psychology, 61 (pp. 38-44). doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2014.08.002
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2013
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Thornton, C. (2013). A New Way of Linking Information
Theory with Cognitive Science. Proceedings of the
35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 3545-3550), Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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Thornton, C. (2013). A Natural Cure for the Pet Fish
Problem: Feature Emergence as Classificatory Composition.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1456-1461), Austin
TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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2012
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Thornton, C. (2012). Renewing the Link between Cognitive
Archeology and Cognitive Science. Journal of Archeological
Science, 39 (pp. 2036-2041). doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.01.037
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Thornton, C. J. (2012). Fuzzy Memory Theory and its
Use in Cognitive Science. In Miyake, Peebles and Cooper
(Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2429-2433).
2011
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Thornton, C. J. (2011). Generation of Folk Song Melodies
using Bayes Transforms. Journal of New Music Research,
40, No. 4 (pp. 293-312). doi:10.1080/09298215.2011.573559
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Thornton, C. J. (2011). Naive Inference viewed as Computation.
In Carlson, Hoelscher and Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings
of 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society
(pp. 366-371), Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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Thornton, C. J. (2011). Is there any Need to Mention
Induction? Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Society (pp. 3483), Boston, MA:.
2010
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Thornton, C. (2010). Some Puzzles relating to the Free-energy
Principle: Comment on Friston. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 14, No. 2 (pp. 53-54).
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Thornton, C. J. (2010). Gauging the Value of Good Data:
Informational Embodiment Quantification. Adaptive
Behavior, 18, No. 5 (pp. 389-399).
2009
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Thornton, C. (2009). Hierarchical Markov Modeling for
Generative Music. In Scavone, Verfaille and Silva (Eds.),
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference
ICMC-09 (pp. 49-52), Montreal, Canada: The International
Computer Music Association.
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Thornton, C. J. (2009). Representation Recovers Information.
Cognitive Science, 33, No. 8 (pp. 1-30).
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Thornton, C. J. (2009). Self-redundancy in Music. In
McCormack, d'Inverno and Boden (Eds.), Proceedings
of the 2009 Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Creativity:
An Interdisciplinary Approach, Schloss Dagstuhl,
Germany http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=2219.
2008
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Thornton, C. (2008). Analogy as Exploration. Proceedings
of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational
Creativity.
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Thornton, C. (2008). Quantitative Concept Analysis,
Unpublished MS.
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Thornton, C. (2008). Agent-level, Context-sensitive
Measurement of Sensory Information, Unpublished
MS.
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Thornton, C. (2008). The Function of Sensory Maps,
Unpublished MS.
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Thornton, C. (2008). Discrete Measurement of Sensory
Information using Bayesian Networks. Proceedings
of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 2027), Austin, TX: Cognitive Science
Society.
2007
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Thornton, C. J. (2007). How Thinking Inside the Box
can become Thinking Outside the Box. Proceedings
of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational
Creativity.
2006
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Thornton, C. J. (2006). Principled Exploitation of Behavioural
Coupling. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical
Artificial Intelligence, 18, No. 3 (pp. 309-330).
2003
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Thornton, C. J. (2003). Indirect Sensing through Abstractive
Learning. Intelligent Data Analysis, 7,
No. 3 (pp. 255-266).
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Thornton, C. J. (2003). Quantitative Abstraction Theory.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation
of Behaviour (AISBJ), 1, No. 3.
2002
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Thornton, C. J. (2002). Creativity and Runaway Learning.
In Dartnall (Ed.), Creativity, Cognition and Knowledge
(pp. 239-250), London: Praeger.
1999
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Thornton, C. J. (1999). What do Constructive Learners
Really Learn? Artificial Intelligence Review,
13, No. 4 (pp. 249-257).
1998
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Thornton, C. J. (1998). The Building Block Fallacy.
Complexity International, 4.
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Thornton, C. and Clark, A. (1998). Reading the Generalizer's
Mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge
University Press.
1997
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Thornton, C. J. (1997). Separability is a Learner's
Best Friend. In Bullinaria, Glasspool and Houghton (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Fourth Neural Computation and
Psychology Workshop: Connectionist Representations
(pp. 40-47), London: Springer-Verlag.
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Thornton, C. J. (1997). Brave Mobots use Representation:
Emergence of Representation in Fight-or-Flight Learning.
Minds and Machines, 7, No. 475-494.
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Thornton, C. and Clark, A. (1997). Relational Learning
Re-examined. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20
(pp. 83-90), Cambridge University Press.
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Clark, A. and Thornton, C. (1997). Trading Spaces: Computation,
Representation and the Limits of Uninformed Learning.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20 (pp.
57-90), Cambridge University Press.
1996
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Thornton, C. J. (1996). No-Strings Representationalism.
AISB Quarterly, No. 96 (pp. 28-31).
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Thornton, C. J. (1996). Re-presenting Representation.
In Peterson (Ed.), Forms of Representation: An Interdisciplinary
Theme for Cognitive Science (pp. 152-162), Intellect.
1995
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Thornton, C. J. (1995). Measuring the Difficulty of
Specific Learning Problems. Connection Science,
7, No. 1 (pp. 81-92).
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Thornton, C. J. (1995). Compression, Dilation and the
Redescriptive Role of Explicitation. In Hoc (Ed.), Proceedings
of the European Conference on Cognitive Science
(pp. 19-30).
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Thornton, C. J. (1995). Parity: The Problem that
Won't Go Away, School of Cognitive and Computing
Sciences, University of Sussex.
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Stone, J. and Thornton, . J. (1995). Can Artificial
Neural Networks Discover Useful Regularities? Proceedings
of ICANN-95, Cambridge:.
1994
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Thornton, C. J. (1994). Adaptation of Obstacle-Avoidance
in the face of Emerging Environmental Dynamics. Proceedings
of AIRTC-94.
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Thornton, C. J. (1994). Connectionism, Creativity and
Guided Walks. In Dartnall (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence
and Creativity (pp. 211-215), Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Thornton, C. J. (1994). Emergent Representation/Green
Cognition. Proceedings of DRABC-94: On the Role of
Dynamics and Representation in Adaptive Behaviour and
Cognition (pp. 192-193).
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Thornton, C. J. (1994). Unsupervised Learning with the
Soft-Means Algorithm. Proceedings of the World Congress
on Neural Networks, 4 (pp. 200-205), San
Diego:.
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Thornton, C. J. (1994). Statistical Biases in Backpropagation
Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 709-712), Sorrento,
Italy:.
1993
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Thornton, C. J. (1993). Computer Doodles Using Simulated
Gravitational Fields, Loughborough:.
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Thornton, C. J. (1993). Statistical Factors in Behaviour
Learning. Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial
Life.
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Thornton, C. J. (1993). A Definition of Learner Uncertainty.
Proceedings of Information Technology and Programming
(pp. 193-204), Sofia, Bulgaria:.
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Thornton, C. J. (1993). In Dartnall, Kim and Sudweeks
(Eds.), Representational Redescription for Sea Slugs.
1992
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Thornton, C. J. (1992). The Howl Effect in Dynamic-Network
Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 211-214), Brighton:.
1991
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Thornton, C. J. (1991). An Introduction to Connectionist
Computing. Computer Aided Design, 23,
No. 8 (pp. 530-538).
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Thornton, C. J. (1991). Why Connectionist Learning Algorithms
Need to be More Creative. Conference Preprints for
the First Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Reasoning
and Creativity, Brisbane, Australia:.
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Thornton, C. J. (1991). Neural Networks versus Artificial
Intelligence: The Phoney War. Proceedings of the
First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Technology and Applications (AITA '91) (pp. 1-15),
Universiti Malaya.
1990
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Thornton, C. J. (1990). The Kink Representation for
Exclusive-OR. Proceedings of the International Neural
Network Conference (pp. 982), Kluwer Academic.
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Thornton, C. (1990). Why Concept Learning is a Good
Idea, University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Artificial
Intelligence.
1989
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Thornton, C. J. (1989). Analogical Inference as Generalised
Inductive Inference. In Jantke (Ed.), Analogical
and Inductive Inference (pp. 254-263), Springer-Verlag.
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Thornton, C. (1989). The Factorial Productivity of Mark-Raising
Generalization. In Plander (Ed.), Proceedings of
the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Information-Control Systems of Robots (pp. 141-150),
Amsterdam (North-Holland): Elsevier Science Publishers
B.V. (North-Holland).
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Thornton, C. (1989). Defining Higher-order Classes.
Proceedings of the Second Scandinavian Conference
on Artificial Intelligence.
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Thornton, C. J. (1989). The Emergence of Higher Levels
of Description. Proceedings of the Second Irish Conference
on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
(pp. 169-187), Dublin City University:.
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Thornton, C. (1989). Learning Mechanisms which Construct
Neighbourhood Representations. Connection Science,
1, No. 1 (pp. 69-85).
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Thornton, C. J. (1989). The Structure of Extensions.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers
and Philosophy, Pittsburgh:.
1988
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Thornton, C. (1988). Links between Content and Information-content.
Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Pitman.
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Thornton, C. J. (1988). A Computational Model for the
Data Compression Metaphor. In O'Shea and Sgurev (Eds.),
Proceedings of the International Conference of AI
Methodology Systems Applications (AIMSA-88, Varna, Bulgaria,
20-23 September), Elsevier Science Publishers.
1987
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Thornton, C. (1987). Hypercuboid-Formation Behaviour
of Two Learning Algorithms. Proceedings of the Tenth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(pp. 301-303), Los Altos: Morgan Kaufmann.
1986
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Thornton, C. J. (1986). Design Principle for a Graphical
Discourse Language. Proceedings of the WWDU conference
(Stockholm) (pp. 937-939).
1984
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Thornton, C. (1984). Coherent Systems. In O'Shea (Ed.),
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (pp. 460), Elsevier Science Publishers
B.V. (North-Holland).