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Professor
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail christian.balkeniuslucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 32 51
Room LUX:B452
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
See external hompage at christian.balkenius.se
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Cognitive modeling (research leader)
- eSSENCE@LU 4:1 - Method development for analysis and modelling of large scale electrophysiological recordings using deep artificial neural networks (research leader)
- eSSENCE@LU 7:4 - Method development: Analysing real life eye tracking data using realistic computational models of cognition
- Social robots in human environments
- A Plurality of Lives - Pufendorf IAS Theme
- A new principle for sensation in robot hands (research leader)
- From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems
- Modelling Cognitive Development in Robots (research leader)
- Adaptive Builder Robots (research leader)
- A somatosensory system for a robot
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
- Bimanual manipulation of objects (research leader)
- IMPROving the Visual Environment for all
Books (1)
Editorships (7)
- Balkenius, C., Gulz, A., Haake, M. & Wallergård, M. (2017). (Eds.) Intelligent, socially oriented technology III : Projects by teams of master level students in cognitive science and engineering. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 168. 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..
- Ziemke, T., Balkenius, C. & Hallam, J. (2012). (Eds.) From Animals to Animats 12. Lecture Notes in AI. Springer.
- 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.
- Cañamero, L., Oudeyer, P.-Y. & Balkenius, C. (2009). (Eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Studies, 146. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Science.
- Schlesinger, M., Berthouze, L. & Balkenius, C. (2008). (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Studies, 139. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Science.
- Berthouze, L., Prince, C. G., Littman, M., Kozima, H. & Balkenius, C. (2007). (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 135. Lund University Cognitive Science.
Articles (55)
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (submitted). A Self-Organizing Object Recognition System Based on Proprioception. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Elsevier.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2022). Almost Alive : Robots and Androids. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 4, 1-7. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Stenseke, J. & Balkenius, C. (2022). Assessing the Time Efficiency of Ethical Algorithms. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.
- 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..
- Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2020). Mutual Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction : A Deflationary Account. Philosophy & Technology, 33, 53-70. Springer.
- Ingvarsdóttir, K. Ó. & Balkenius, C. (2020). The Visual Perception of Material Properties Affects Motor Planning in Prehension : An Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Components of Lifting Cups. 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.
- Lowe, R., Almér, A. & Balkenius, C. (2019). Bridging Connectionism and Relational Cognition through Bi-directional Affective-Associative Processing. Open Information Science, 3, 235-260. De Gruyter.
- Persson, E., Abbott, J., Balkenius, C., Cabak Rédei, A., Capova, K. A., Dravins, D., Dunér, D., Gunneflo, M., Hedlund, M., Johansson, M., Melin, A. & Persson, P. (2019). How Will the Emerging Plurality of Lives Change? : How We Conceive of and Relate to Life?. Challenges. MDPI AG.
- Tjøstheim, T. A. & Balkenius, C. (2019). Cumulative inhibition in neural networks. Cognitive Processing, 20, 87-102. Springer.
- 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.
- Lowe, R., Almér, A., Billing, E., Sandamirskaya, Y. & Balkenius, C. (2017). Affective–associative two-process theory : a neurocomputational account of partial reinforcement extinction effects. Biological Cybernetics, 111, 365-388. Springer.
- Balkenius, A. & Balkenius, C. (2016). Multimodal interaction in the insect brain. BMC Neuroscience, 17. BioMed Central (BMC).
- Balkenius, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2016). Spaces in the brain : From neurons to meanings. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. Frontiers Media S. A..
- 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, A., Johansson, A. J. & Balkenius, C. (2015). Comparing Analysis Methods in Functional Calcium Imaging of the Insect Brain. PLoS ONE, 10. Public Library of Science (PLoS).
- Lind, A., Hall, L., Breidegard, B., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, P. (2015). Auditory Feedback Is Used for Self-Comprehension : When We Hear Ourselves Saying Something Other Than What We Said, We Believe We Said What We Hear. Psychological Science, 26, 1978-1980. SAGE Publications.
- Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P., Hall, L., Balkenius, C., Spivey, M. J. & Richardson, D. C. (2015). Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 4170-4175. National Academy of Sciences.
- Lind, A., Hall, L., Breidegard, B., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, P. (2014). Auditory feedback of one's own voice is used for high-level semantic monitoring: the "self-comprehension" hypothesis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Lind, A., Hall, L., Breidegard, B., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, P. (2014). Speakers' Acceptance of Real-Time Speech Exchange Indicates That We Use Auditory Feedback to Specify the Meaning of What We Say. Psychological Science, 25, 1198-1205. SAGE Publications.
- Pezzulo, G., Verschure, P. F. M. J., Balkenius, C. & Pennartz, C. M. A. (2014). The principles of goal-directed decision-making: from neural mechanisms to computation and robotics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369. Royal Society Publishing.
- Saifullah, M., Balkenius, C. & Jönsson, A. (2014). A biologically based model for recognition of 2-D occluded patterns. Cognitive Processing, 15, 13-28. Springer.
- Antfolk, C., Cipriani, C., Carozza, M. C., Balkenius, C., Björkman, A., Lundborg, G., Rosén, B. & Sebelius, F. (2013). Transfer of tactile input from an artificial hand to the forearm: experiments in amputees and able-bodied volunteers. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 8, 249-254. Taylor & Francis.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2011). Sense of Touch in Robots with Self-Organizing Maps. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 27, 498-507. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Antfolk, C., Balkenius, C., Lundborg, G., Rosén, B. & Sebelius, F. (2010). A Tactile Display System for Hand Prostheses to Discriminate Pressure and Individual Finger Localization. Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 30, 355-359. Springer.
- Antfolk, C., Balkenius, C., Lundborg, G., Rosén, B. & Sebelius, F. (2010). Design and technical construction of a tactile display for sensory feedback in a hand prosthesis system. BioMedical Engineering Online, 9. BioMed Central (BMC).
- Antfolk, C., Balkenius, C., Rosén, B., Lundborg, G. & Sebelius, F. (2010). SmartHand tactile display: A new concept for providing sensory feedback in hand prostheses. Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery, 44, 50-53. Taylor & Francis.
- Balkenius, A. & Balkenius, C. (2010). Behaviour towards an unpreferred colour: can green flowers attract foraging hawkmoths?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213, 3257-3262. The Company of Biologists Ltd.
- Balkenius, C., Jan, M., Johansson, B. & Johnsson, M. (2010). Ikaros: Building Cognitive Models for Robots. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24, 40-48. Elsevier.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2010). Haptic Perception with Self-Organizing ANNs and an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand. Journal of Robotics. Hindawi Limited.
- Balkenius, C., Morén, J. & Winberg, S. (2009). Interactions between Motivation, Emotion and Attention: From Biology to Robotics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics.. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Studies.
- Cipriani, C., Antfolk, C., Balkenius, C., Rosén, B., Lundborg, G., Carozza, M. C. & Sebelius, F. (2009). A novel concept for a prosthetic hand with bidirectional non-invasive interface: a feasibility study. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 56, 2739-2743. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2009). Experiments with Self-Organizing Systems for Texture and Hardness Perception. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 4, 53-62. Elsevier.
- Balkenius, A., Kelber, A. & Balkenius, C. (2008). How do Hawkmoths Learn Multi-Modal Stimuli? A Comparison of Three Models. Adaptive Behavior, 16, 349-360. SAGE Publications.
- Balkenius, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Anticipation requires adaptation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 199-199. Cambridge University Press.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2007). Neural network models of haptic shape perception. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 55, 720-727. Elsevier.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2006). Experiments with artificial haptic perception in a robotic hand. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 17, 377-385. IOS Press.
- Sebelius, F., Eriksson, L., Balkenius, C. & Laurell, T. (2006). Myoelectric control of a computer animated hand: A new concept based on the combined use of a tree-structured artificial neural network and a data glove. Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 30, 2-10. Taylor & Francis.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M., Pallbo, R. & Balkenius, C. (2005). A haptic system for the LUCS Haptic Hand I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3561, 386-395. Springer.
- Sebelius, F., Eriksson, L., Holmberg, H., Levinsson, A., Lundborg, G., Danielsen, N., Schouenborg, J., Balkenius, C., Laurell, T. & Montelius, L. (2005). Classification of motor commands using a modified self-organising feature map. Medical Engineering & Physics, 27, 403-413. Elsevier.
- Zücker Björne, P. & Balkenius, C. (2005). A model of attentional impairments in autism: first steps toward a computational theory. Cognitive Systems Research, 6, 193-204. Elsevier.
- Zücker Björne, P. & Balkenius, C. (2005). The role of context and inhibition in ADHD. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 426-426. Cambridge University Press.
- Balkenius, A., Kelber, A. & Balkenius, C. (2004). A model of selecion between stimulus and place strategy in a hawkmoth. Adaptive Behavior, 12, 21-35. SAGE Publications.
- Baerveldt, A. J., Arras, K. O. & Balkenius, C. (2003). Best Papers of the Eurobot '01 Workshop - Editorial. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 44, 1-1. Elsevier.
- Balkenius, C. & Morén, J. (2003). From isolated components to cognitive systems. Ercim News, 16-16. ERCIM.
- Rosén, B., Balkenius, C. & Lundborg, G. (2003). Sensory re-education today and tomorrow: a review of evolving concepts. British Journal of Hand Therapy, 8, 48-56. British Association of Hand Therapists Ltd.
- Balkenius, C. (2000). Attention, habituation and conditioning: toward a computational model. Cognitive Science Quarterly, 1, 171-214.
- Morén, J. & Balkenius, C. (2000). Emotional learning: a computational model of the amygdala. Cybernetics and Systems, 32, 611-636. Taylor & Francis.
Book chapters (13)
- Balkenius, C. (2017). Nästan levande: robotar och androider. In Abbott, J. & Persson, E. (Eds.) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie, Liv : Utomjordiskt syntetiskt och artificiellt (pp. 151-160). Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet.
- 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.
- Strannegård, C., von Haugwitz, R., Wessberg, J. & Balkenius, C. (2013). Intuition and Reasoning A Cognitive Architecture based on Dual Process Theory. In Kühnberger, K.-U. (Eds.) Artificial General Intelligence (pp. 140-149), 7999. Springer.
- Johnsson, M., Balkenius, C. & Hesslow, G. (2011). Multimodal System Based on Self-Organizing Maps. In Madani et al, K. (Ed.) Studies in Computational Intelligence, 343 (pp. 251-263), 343. Springer.
- Balkenius, C. & Moren, J. (2008). Animal Learning. A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science, 35-48. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- 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.
- Ognibene, D., Balkenius, C. & Baldassarre, G. (2008). A Reinforcement-Learning Model of Top-Down Attention Based on a Potential-Action Map. In Pezzulu, G., Butz, M. V., Castelfranchi, C. & R, F. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation (pp. 161-184). Springer.
- Pezzulo, G., Butz, M. V., Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R., Baldassarre, G. & Balkenius, C. (2008). Endowing Artificial Systems with Anticipatory Capabilities: Success Cases. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M. V., Castelfranchi, C. & R, F. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation (pp. 237-254). Springer.
- 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.
- Kiryazov, K., Petkov, G., Grinberg, M. & Balkenius, C. (2007). The Interplay of Analogy-Making with Active Vision and Motor Control in Anticipatory Robots. In Butz, M. (Ed.) Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior, LNAI, 4520. Springer.
- Balkenius, C. (2003). Cognitive processes in contextual cueing. In Schmalhofer, F., Young, R. & Katz, G. (Eds.) Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2003. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Zücker Björne, P. & Balkenius, C. (2003). Autism as an attentional disorder. Proceedings of the XIth European Conference on Developmental Psychology.
Encyclopaedia entries (2)
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2012). Adaptation and anticipation: Learning from experience. In Seel, N. M. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (pp. 92-94). Springer.
- Balkenius, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2011). Artificiell intelligens. Nationalencyclopedin. Nationalencyklopedin.
Conference contributions (75)
- Krantz, A., Haresamudram, K. & Balkenius, C. (accepted/in press). Nobody's Perfect : On Trust in Social Robot Failures.
- Johnsson, M., Balkenius, C. & Hesslow, G. (accepted/in press). Neural Network Architecture for Crossmodal Activation and Perceptual Sequences. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) 2009.
- Fantasia, V., Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2022). Making sense with social robots : Extending the landscape of investigation in HRI. AIC 2022 Proceedings : 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition. CEUR-WS.
- 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..
- Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2019). Recognition in Human–Robot Interaction : The gateway to engagement. 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 31-36. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2019). A Computational Model of the Acoustic Startle Reflex.
- Lowe, R., Almér, A., Gander, P. & Balkenius, C. (2019). Vicarious Value Learning and Inference in Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction. 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 395-400. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Tjøstheim, T. A. & Balkenius, C. (2019). Cumulative Inhibition in Spiking Networks.
- 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).
- Balkenius, C. (2017). The inner and external world are two dynamical systems coupled by attention.
- 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.
- Oliva, M., Anikin, A. & Balkenius, C. (2017). Pupil dilation reflects the time course of perceptual emotion selection. In Arweström Jansson, A., Axelsson, A., Andreasson, R. & Billing, E. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 13th SweCog Conference (pp. 15-15), 2017. University of Skövde.
- Rosén, J., Hübner, K. & Balkenius, C. (2017). The Importance of Natural Hand Interaction in Virtual Reality : Will Memorization Ability Increase with Higher Sense of Ownership in VR?. In Arwestöm Jansson, A., Axelsson, A., Andreasson, R. & Billing, E. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 13th SweCog Conference (pp. 60-62), 2017. Copenhagen University & Lund University.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Wallin, A., Balkenius, C., Holmqvist, K. & Jarodzka, H. (2016). The social brain goes to school : Eye movements, instructional design and the classroom effect.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Wallin, A., Balkenius, C., Holmqvist, K. & Jarodzka, H. (2016). The social brain goes to school : Eye movements, instructional design and the classroom effect.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2015). Developing flexible skills. Proceedings of the 2015 SweCog Conference, 6-6.
- Siljebråt, H. & Balkenius, C. (2015). Seeing red: Picking flowers in Minecraft with Q-learning. In Billing, E., Lindblom, J. & Ziemke, T. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 2015 SweCog Conference (pp. 19-19), 2015. Skövde University.
- Tjøstheim, T. A. & Balkenius, C. (2015). What difference does it make? A computational model of sameness. In Billing, E., Lindblom, J. & Ziemke, T. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 2015 SweCog Conference (pp. 22-22), 2015. Skövde University.
- Billing, E. & Balkenius, C. (2014). Modeling the interplay between conditioning and attention in a humanoid robot : habituation and attentional blocking. Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2014 Joint IEEE International Conferences on, 41-47. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Pärnamets, P., Balkenius, C. & Richardson, D. C. (2014). Modelling moral choice as a diffusion process dependent on visual fixations. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., McShane, M. & Scassellati, B. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1132-1137). Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
- Osvath, M., Sauciuc, G.-A., Balkenius, C. & Persson, T. (2013). Gustatory imagination in an orangutan.
- Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P., Balkenius, C., Hall, L., Spivey, M. J. & Richardson, D. C. (2013). Changing minds by tracking eyes: Biasing moral decisions by interrupting gaze. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6, 166-166. European Group for Eye Movement Research.
- Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P., Balkenius, C., Hall, L., Spivey, M. J. & Richardson, D. C. (2013). Changing minds by tracking eyes: Dynamical systems, gaze and moral decisions. In Knauff, M., Pauen, M., Sebanz, N. & Wachsmuth, I. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
- Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P., Balkenius, C., Hall, L., Spivey, M. J. & Richardson, D. C. (2013). Changing minds by tracking eyes.
- Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2012). Attention modulation in hierarchical self-organizing convolution networks.
- Pärnamets, P., Hall, L., Strandberg, T., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, P. (2012). Objective markers of detection process during a choice blindness task.
- Strannegård, C., Häggström, O., Wessberg, J. & Balkenius, C. (2012). Transparent neural networks : integrating concept formation and reasoning. In Bach, J., Goertzel, B. & Iklé, M. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Artificial General Intelligence : 5th International Conference, AGI 2012, Oxford, UK, December 8-11, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 302-311), 7716. Springer.
- Bååth, R., Strandberg, T. & Balkenius, C. (2011). Eye Tapping: How to Beat Out an Accurate Rhythm using Eye Movements.
- Johnsson, M., Gil, D., Hesslow, G. & Balkenius, C. (2011). Internal Simulation in a Bimodal System. In Kofod-Petersen et al, A. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) 2011 (pp. 173-182). IOS Press.
- Bååth, R. & Balkenius, C. (2010). Is it Necessary to Solve the Redundancy Problem when Learning the Inverse Kinematics of a Robotic Arm?. In Johansson, B., Sahlin, E. & Balkenius, C. (Eds.) Lund University Cognitive Studies, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics 2010 (pp. 155-156), 149.
- Balkenius, A., Dacke, M. & Balkenius, C. (2010). The Approach Behaviour of the Hawkmoth Manduca sexta toward Multi-modal Stimuli: A Simulation Model. In Doncieux, S., Girard, B., Guillot, A., Hallam, J., Meyer, J.-A. & Mouret, J.-B. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, From Animals to Animats 11 : 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2010, Paris - Clos Lucé, France, August 25-28, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 232-241). Springer.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M., Gil, D., Balkenius, C. & Hesslow, G. (2010). Supervised Architectures for Internal Simulation of Perceptions and Actions. In Hernandez, C., Gomez, J. & Sanz, R. (Eds.) The Proceedings of Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS).
- Winberg, S. & Balkenius, C. (2010). Learning to Simulate the Behavior of a Dynamical Object. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 181-182. Lund University Cognitive Studies.
- Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2009). Prediction Time in Anticipatory Systems. Proceedings of Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS 2008)., 5499, 283-300.
- Johnsson, M., Balkenius, C. & Hesslow, G. (2009). Associative Self-Organizing Map. IJCCI 2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, 363-370. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication.
- Balkenius, C. & Winberg, S. (2008). Fast Learning in an Actor-Critic Architecture with Reward and Punishment. In Holst, A. (Ed.) Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2008) (pp. 20-27), 173.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2008). Associating SOM Representations of Haptic Submodalities. In Ramamoorthy, S. & Hayes, G. M. (Eds.) Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2008 : The University of Edinburgh. September 1 st – 3 rd 2008 (pp. 124-129). University of Edinburgh.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2008). Recognizing Texture and Hardness by Touch. In Chatila, R., Kelly, A. & Merlet, J.-P. (Eds.) 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) : Acropolis convention center, Nice, France. September 22-26, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 482-487). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Johnsson, M., Gil Mendez, D. & Balkenius, C. (2008). Touch Perception with SOM, Growing Cell Structures and Growing Grids.
- Ognibene, D., Balkenius, C. & Baldassarre, G. (2008). Intregrating epistemic action (active vision) amd pragmatic action (reaching): a neural architecture for camera-arm robots. LNCS, 5040, 220-229. Springer.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2007). Experiments with Proprioception in a Self-Organizing System for Haptic Perception. [Host publication title missing]. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2007, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 239-245..
- Winberg, S. & Balkenius, C. (2007). Generalization and Specialization in Reinforcement Learning. In Berthouze, L. (Ed.) Lund University Cognitive Studies, 134. Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Balkenius, A., Kelber, A. & Balkenius, C. (2006). Modelling multi-modal learning in a hawkmoth. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4095, 422-433.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2006). A Robot Hand with T-MPSOM Neural Networks in a Model of the Human Haptic System. In Witkowski, M., Nehmzow, U., Melhuish, C., Moxey, E. & Ellery, A. (Eds.) Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2006 : Incorporating the Autumn Biro-Net Symposium (pp. 80-87). Imperial College London.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2006). Haptic Perception with a Robotic Hand. In Honkela, T., Kortela, J., Valpola, H. & Raiko, T. (Eds.) Publications of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, Proceedings of the Ninth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2006) (pp. 127-134), 22. Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society.
- 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.
- Johnsson, M., Pallbo, R. & Balkenius, C. (2005). Experiments with Haptic Perception in a Robotic Hand. [Host publication title missing]. Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Sweden, Västerås, Sweden: Mälardalen University, 81-86..
- 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..
- Balkenius, C. & Gustafsson, M. (2004). Using semantic web techniques for validation of cognitive models against neuroscientific data. In Malek, J. (Ed.) Proceedings of AILS 04 ( Report / Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University ; 151) (pp. 74-75). Department of Computer Science, Lund University.
- Balkenius, C. & Winberg, S. (2004). Cognitive modeling with context sensitive reinforcement learning. In Malek, J. (Ed.) Proceedings of AILS 04 ( Report / Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University ; 151) (pp. 10-19). Department of Computer Science, Lund University.
- Balkenius, C. & Zücker Björne, P. (2004). Cognitive development in context: Learning to pay attention. In Triesch, J., Jebara, T. & Deák, G. (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning 04 (pp. 190-198). The Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
- Balkenius, C. & Zücker Björne, P. (2004). First steps towards a computational theory of autism. In Berhouze, L., Kozima, H., Prince, C. G., Sandini, G., Stojanov, G., Metta, G. & Balkenius, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on epigenetic robotics (Lund University Cognitive Studies) (pp. 27-34), 117. Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Balkenius, C., Eriksson, A. P. & Åström, K. (2004). Learning in Visual Attention.
- Balkenius, C., Zücker Björne, P., Winberg, S. & Balkenius, A. (2004). What is the role of context in the responses of midbrain dopamine neurons?. 7th International Congress of Neuroethology.
- Balkenius, A., Kelber, A. & Balkenius, C. (2002). Simulations of learning and behaviour in the hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor. In Hallam et al., B. (Ed.) From Animals to Animats 7. Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (pp. 85-92). MIT Press.
- Sebelius, F., Eriksson, L., Balkenius, C. & Laurell, T. (2002). Tele-Operation of Multi-Finger Virtual/Robot Hand Using Self-Organizing Tree Structured Network on EMG. Proceedings of First International ICSC Conference on Neuro-Fuzzy Technologies, 16-19.
- Gärdenfors, P., Balkenius, C. & Hall, L. (2000). The origin of symbols in the brain. Paper presented at the conference on Evolution of Language, March 6-9, 2000, Paris.
- Morén, J. & Balkenius, C. (2000). A computational model of emotional learning in the amygdala. From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour. MIT Press.
- Montelius, L., Sebelius, F., Eriksson, L., Holmberg, H., Schouenborg, J., Danielsen, N., Wallman, L., Laurell, T. & Balkenius, C. (1996). Pattern recognition of nerve signals using an artificial neural network.
- Pallbo, R., Balkenius, C. & Kopp, L. (1994). A robot with autonomous spatial learning: a project overview. Proceedings of SAIS.
- Pallbo, R. & Balkenius, C. (1991). Efficient implementation of neural networks in an object oriented programming environment. Proceedings of Neuro Nimes '91, 733-736.
Reports (7)
- 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.
- Johnsson, M. & Balkenius, C. (2006). LUCS Haptic Hand II. LUCS Minor. Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Balkenius, C., Johansson, A. J. & Balkenius, A. (2003). Color constancy in visual scene perception. LUCS Studies. Lund University Cognitive Science.
- Johansson, A. J., Rassmus-Gröhn, K. & Balkenius, C. (2002). Lighting of RoboCup Games. LUCS Minor. Lund University Cognitive Science.
Working papers (3)
- Storm, T., Engberg, M. & Balkenius, C. (2013). Amygdala activity and flashbacks in PTSD – A review. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 156. Lund University.
- Balkenius, C. & Morén, J. (1998). Computational Models of Classical Conditioning: A Comparative Study.
- Balkenius, C. & Kopp, L. (1996). The XT-1 Vision Architecture.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Newspaper articles (2)
- Teke, H., Sjödén, B., Persson, A., Balkenius, C. & Kelley, P. (2015). Tidiga skolmorgnar en fara för hälsan. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gulz, A., Haake, M., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2012). Samarbete ger lyckat resultat. Sydsvenska dagbladet. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Miscellaneous (2)
- Balkenius, A., Johansson, A. J. & Balkenius, C. (2015). Data from : Comparing analysis methods in functional calcium imaging of the insect brain. Dryad Digital Repository.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Balkenius, C. (2003). Intelligenta lösningar behöver inte vara mänskliga. Axess Publishing AB.
Supervision at Lund University (10)
- Tjøstheim, T. A. (2022). Contours of Cognition. Lund University Cognitive Studies. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Ingvarsdottir, K. (2021). Material perception and action : The role of material properties in object handling. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Anikin, A. (2020). Human nonverbal vocalizations. Department of Philosophy, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Oliva, M. (2018). Attention and Learning through the Eyes of the Emotional Brain. Lund University Cognitive Studies. Dissertation.
- Bååth, R. (2015). An Investigation into the Perception and Production of Slow Rhythms. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 163. Dissertation.
- Lind, A. (2014). Semantic Self-monitoring in Speech. Using Real-time Speech Exchange to Investigate the Use of Auditory Feedback for Self-comprehension. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 158. Department of Philosophy, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Johansson, B. (2009). Anticipation and Attention in Robot Control. Lund University cognitive studies, 142. Dissertation.
- Johnsson, M. (2009). Sense of Touch in Robots. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 141. Dissertation.
- Zücker Björne, P. (2007). A Possible World: Autism from Practice to Theory. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 134. Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Månsson, J. (2005). Perceptual Surface Reconstruction. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 129. Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University. Dissertation.

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Contact information
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