Artificial Life ePosters

Foraging, the set of behaviors associated with seeking valuable resources (e.g., food, water) while avoiding danger (e.g., predators), is ubiquitous among organisms, but its neural circuit basis is presently unclear. Most existing work on navigation, a key component of foraging, involves animals in small, fully…

Social foraging is a fundamental collective behavior observed across various species, but studying complex multi-agent dynamics and accompanying neural activity in natural settings remains challenging. Here we present an in silico study of social interaction during foraging using recurrent neural network (RNN) agents…

Animals continuously merge information across their senses, and use these combined signals to guide their behaviour. In the brain, these multisensory computations are performed by circuits rich with complex connections like skips [1] - bypassing certain layers, and feedback pathways which allow information to flow…

What role does phenotypic complexity play in the systems-level function of an embodied agent? The organismal phenotype is a topologically complex structure that interacts with a genotype, developmental physics, and an informational environment. Using this observation as inspiration, we utilize a type of embodied agent…

Cognitive offloading occurs when environmental affordances expand cognitive capacity as well as facilitate spatial and social behaviors. Yet capacity-related constraints are also important, particularly as an embodied agent comes online during development. Vast differences in brain size and offloading capacity exist…