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Researcher
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail birger.johanssonlucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 32 53
Room LUX:B451
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- eSSENCE@LU 4:1 - Method development for analysis and modelling of large scale electrophysiological recordings using deep artificial neural networks
- Att se en robot
- From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems
- Instrumental and normative expectations in a social robot
- Modelling Cognitive Development in Robots
- Adaptive Builder Robots
- A somatosensory system for a robot
- The Meaning of Actions - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
Books (1)
Editorships (3)
- Johansson, B., Gulz, A., Haake, M., Wallergård, M., Alce, G., Niehorster, D. C., Nirme, J., Ternblad, E.-M. & Tärning, B. (2021). (Eds.) Intelligent, socially oriented technology V : Projects by teams of master level students in cognitive science and engineering. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 180. Department of Philosophy, Lund University.
- Balkenius, C., Gulz, A., Haake, M. & Johansson, B. (2013). (Eds.) Intelligent, socially oriented technology : Projects by teams of master level students in cognitive science and engineering : Anthology of master level course papers. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 154. Div. of Cognitive Science (LUCS), Lund University..
- Johansson, B., Erol Sahin, E. & Balkenius, C. (2010). (Eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 149. Lund University.
Articles (12)
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2022). Almost Alive : Robots and Androids. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 4, 1-7. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2021). Direct Approach or Detour : A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Balkenius, C., Johansson, B. & Tjøstheim, T. A. (2020). Ikaros : A framework for controlling robots with system-level brain models. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 17. SAGE Publications.
- Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B., Wallin, A. & Gärdenfors, P. (2020). The Missing Link Between Memory and Reinforcement Learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Johansson, B., Tjøstheim, T. A. & Balkenius, C. (2020). Epi : An open humanoid platform for developmental robotics. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 17. SAGE Publications.
- Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A. & Johansson, B. (2018). Arousal and awareness in a humanoid robot. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2287. CEUR-WS.
- Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B. & Gärdenfors, P. (2018). From focused thought to reveries : A memory system for a conscious robot. Frontiers in robotics and AI, 5. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2018). A Computational Model of Pupil Dilation. Connection Science, 30, 5-19. Taylor & Francis.
- Balkenius, C., Cañamero, L., Pärnamets, P., Johansson, B., Butz, M. & Olsson, A. (2016). Outline of a sensory-motor perspective on intrinsically moral agents. Adaptive Behavior, 24, 306-319. SAGE Publications.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2007). Anticipatory Models in Gaze Control: A Developmental Model. Cognitive Processing, 8, 167-174. Springer.
- Balkenius, C., Morén, J. & Johansson, B. (2007). System-level cognitive modeling with Ikaros. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 133. Lund University Cognitive Studies.
- Zücker Björne, P., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2006). Effects of early sensorimotor disorder on contextual learning in autism. European Review of Applied Psychology, 56, 247-252. Elsevier.
Book chapters (4)
- Brinck, I., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2016). Making Place for Social Norms in the Design of Human-Robot Interaction. In Seibt, J., Nørskov, M. & Schack Andersen, S. (Eds.) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, What Social Robots Can and Should Do : Proceedings of RoboPhilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016 (pp. 303-312), 290. IOS Press.
- Balkenius, C., Förster, A., Johansson, B. & Thorsteinsdottir, V. (2008). Anticipation in Attention. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M. V., Castelfranchi, C. & Falcone, R. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation (pp. 65-83). Springer.
- Balkenius, C., Johnson, M. & Johansson, B. (2008). Understanding Cognition by Building Robots. In Gärdenfors, P. & Wallin, A. (Eds.) A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science (pp. 99-122). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2007). An Experimental Study of Anticipation in Simple Robot Navigation. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior, 4520, 365-378. Springer.
Encyclopaedia entries (1)
Conference contributions (25)
- Krantz, A., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2022). Using Speech to Reduce Loss of Trust in Humanoid Social Robots.
- Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2022). Adaptive Inhibition for Optimal Energy Consumption by Animals, Robots and Neurocomputers. In Cañamero, L., Gaussier, P., Wilson, M., Boucenna, S. & Cuperlier, N. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, From Animals to Animats 16 : 16th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2022 Cergy-Pontoise, France, September 20–23, 2022 Proceedings (pp. 103-114), 13499. Springer.
- Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Krantz, A. & Johansson, B. (2021). Basic Visual Reflexes for a Humanoid Robot. In Billing, E. & Kalckert, A. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 16'th SweCog Conference (pp. 19-21), 2021:2. University of Skövde.
- Brinck, I., Heco, L., Sikström, K., Wandsleb, V., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2020). Humans Perform Social Movements in Response to Social Robot Movements : Motor Intention in Human-Robot Interaction. 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Balkenius, C., Falck-Ytter, T., Fawcett, C., Gustaf, G. & Johansson, B. (2019). Pupillary Correlates of Emotion and Cognition : A Computational Model. Proceedings : 9th International IEEE EMBS Conference On Neural Engineering (NER’19), 903-907. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2019). A Computational Model of the Acoustic Startle Reflex.
- Tärning, B., Tjøstheim, T. A. & Johansson, B. (2019). Communicating emotional state and personality with eye-color and light intensity. HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 214-216. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2019). A Computational Model of Trust-, Pupil-, and Motivation Dynamics. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’19), 179-185. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Lindberg, M., Månsson, K., Johansson, B., Gulz, A. & Balkenius, C. (2017). Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation?. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings, 10498 LNAI, 243-246. Springer.
- Lindberg, M., Sandberg, H., Liljenberg, M., Eriksson, M., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2017). The expression of mental states in a humanoid robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings, 10498 LNAI, 247-250. Springer.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2015). Developing flexible skills. Proceedings of the 2015 SweCog Conference, 6-6.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2012). Attention modulation in hierarchical self-organizing convolution networks.
- Bååth, R. & Johansson, B. (2010). Making a map-making robot: Using the IKAROS System to Implement the Occupancy Grid Algorithm. Proceedings of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society Workshop.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2010). The Indiana Experiment: Investigating the Role of Anticipation and Attention in a Dynamic Environment. SAB'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior: from animals to animats, 6226/2010, 242-251. Springer.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2009). Prediction Time in Anticipatory Systems. Proceedings of Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS 2008)., 5499, 283-300.
- Balkenius, C., Johansson, B. & Johnsson, M. (2008). Ikaros: Building Cognitive Models for Robots.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2008). Learning to Anticipate the Movements of Intermittently Occluded Objects. In Balkenius, C. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (pp. 54-60), 139. Lund University Cognitive Studies.
- Balkenius, C., Johnsson, M. & Johansson, B. (2007). Explorations in Cognitive Robotics. Proceedings of SAIS 2007, 189-192. University College of Borås.
- Balkenius, C., Johnsson, M. & Johansson, B. (2007). Explorations in Cognitive Robotics. [Publication information missing], 189-192.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2006). A developmental approach to dynamic scene understanding. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 128, 165-165. Lund University Cognitive Studies.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2006). The benefits of anticipation: an experimental study.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2005). Event Prediction and Object Motion Estimation in the Development of Visual Attention. In Berthouze, L. (Ed.) Lund University Cognitive Studies, 123. Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2005). It's a child's game: Investigating cognitive development with playing robots. Proceedings of 2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2005, 164-164. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2005). Robots with Anticipation and Attention. Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Sweden, 202-204.
- Zücker Björne, P., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2005). Inhibition in cognitive development: contextual impairments in autism. 2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (IEEE Cat. No. 05EX1079), 187-187. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
Reports (4)
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2016). Building the Builder Robot. Lund University Cognitive Studies (Minor). Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2008). Anticipation and Attention in Robot Control. LUCS Minor. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Science.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2007). Finding Colored Objects in a Scene. LUCS Minor. Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2007). A Multi-Robot System for Anticipatory Experiments. LUCS Minor. Lund University Cognitive Science.
Newspaper articles (1)
Supervision at Lund University (1)

Researcher
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail birger.johanssonlucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 32 53
Room LUX:B451
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30