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Wind Farms and Power Lines Have Negative Effects on Territory Occupancy in Eurasian Eagle Owls ( Bubo bubo ) by Husby, Magne, Pearson, Martin

“…Wind power is useful for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the construction and operation might have negative effects on biodiversity. The purpose of this…”
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An internal model architecture for novelty detection: implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in sensory processing by Anderson, Sean R, Porrill, John, Pearson, Martin J, Pipe, Anthony G, Prescott, Tony J, Dean, Paul

“…The cerebellum is thought to implement internal models for sensory prediction, but details of the underlying circuitry are currently obscure. We therefore…”
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Biomimetic vibrissal sensing for robots by Pearson, Martin J., Mitchinson, Ben, Sullivan, J. Charles, Pipe, Anthony G., Prescott, Tony J.

“…Active vibrissal touch can be used to replace or to supplement sensory systems such as computer vision and, therefore, improve the sensory capacity of mobile…”
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A Spiking Neural Network Model of Rodent Head Direction Calibrated With Landmark Free Learning by Stentiford, Rachael, Knowles, Thomas C, Pearson, Martin J

“…Maintaining a stable estimate of head direction requires both self-motion (idiothetic) information and environmental (allothetic) anchoring. In unfamiliar or…”
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Active Whisker Placement and Exploration For Rapid Object Recognition by Pearson, Martin J., Salman, Mohammed

“…Identifying objects using sparse tactile sensor arrays requires movement across the surface and the integration of sensory information to support hypotheses…”
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Feeling the Pressure: The Influence of Vibrotactile Patterns on Feedback Perception by Smith, Alexander, Ward-Cherrier, Benjamin, Etoundi, Appolinaire, Pearson, Martin J.

“…Tactile feedback is necessary for closing the sen-sorimotor loop in prosthetic and tele-operable control, which would allow for more precise manipulation and…”
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A multizone cerebellar chip for bioinspired adaptive robot control and sensorimotor processing by Wilson, Emma D, Assaf, Tareq, Rossiter, Jonathan M, Dean, Paul, Porrill, John, Anderson, Sean R, Pearson, Martin J

“…The cerebellum is a neural structure essential for learning, which is connected via multiple zones to many different regions of the brain, and is thought to…”
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Multimodal Representation Learning for Place Recognition Using Deep Hebbian Predictive Coding by Pearson, Martin J, Dora, Shirin, Struckmeier, Oliver, Knowles, Thomas C, Mitchinson, Ben, Tiwari, Kshitij, Kyrki, Ville, Bohte, Sander, Pennartz, Cyriel M A

“…Recognising familiar places is a competence required in many engineering applications that interact with the real world such as robot navigation. Combining…”
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Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomer-based artificial muscle by Wilson, Emma D., Assaf, Tareq, Pearson, Martin J., Rossiter, Jonathan M., Anderson, Sean R., Porrill, John, Dean, Paul

“…Electroactive polymer actuators are important for soft robotics, but can be difficult to control because of compliance, creep and nonlinearities. Because…”
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Ring Attractors as the Basis of a Biomimetic Navigation System by Knowles, Thomas C., Summerton, Anna G., Whiting, James G. H., Pearson, Martin J.

“…The ability to navigate effectively in a rich and complex world is crucial for the survival of all animals. Specialist neural structures have evolved that are…”
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The MindLab Project. Local Museums Supporting Community Wellbeing Before and After UK Lockdown by French, Jade, Lunt, Nic, Pearson, Martin

“…Catalyst is a science discovery centre and independent museum based in Widnes, United Kingdom. Since 2018, it has collaborated with mental health charity Mind…”
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Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal-Processing and Control Applications: A Model-Validated FPGA Approach by Pearson, M.J., Pipe, A.G., Mitchinson, B., Gurney, K., Melhuish, C., Gilhespy, I., Nibouche, M.

“…In this paper, we present two versions of a hardware processing architecture for modeling large networks of leaky-integrate-and-flre (LIF) neurons; the second…”
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Tactile Discrimination Using Active Whisker Sensors by Sullivan, J. C., Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M. J., Evans, M., Lepora, N. F., Fox, C. W., Melhuish, C., Prescott, T. J.

“…We describe a novel, biomimetic tactile sensing system modeled on the facial whiskers (vibrissae) of animals such as rats and mice. The "BIOTACT Sensor"…”
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Alfaxalone compared with ketamine for induction of anaesthesia in horses following xylazine and guaifenesin by Keates, Helen L, van Eps, Andrew W, Pearson, Martin R B

“…To compare anaesthesia induced with either alfaxalone or ketamine in horses following premedication with xylazine and guaifenesin. Randomized blinded…”
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Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture by Mitchinson, Ben, Pearson, Martin J., Pipe, Anthony G., Prescott, Tony J.

“…Good performance in unstructured/uncertain environments is an ongoing problem in robotics; in biology, it is an everyday observation. Here, we model a…”
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Fast, Flexible Closed-Loop Feedback: Tracking Movement in "Real-Millisecond-Time" by Sehara, Keisuke, Bahr, Viktor, Mitchinson, Ben, Pearson, Martin J, Larkum, Matthew E, Sachdev, Robert N S

“…One of the principal functions of the brain is to control movement and rapidly adapt behavior to a changing external environment. Over the last decades our…”
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Contact type dependency of texture classification in a whiskered mobile robot by Fox, Charles W., Mitchinson, Ben, Pearson, Martin J., Pipe, Anthony G., Prescott, Tony J.

“…Actuated artificial whiskers modeled on rat macrovibrissae can provide effective tactile sensor systems for autonomous robots. This article focuses on texture…”
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Audio Localization for Robots Using Parallel Cerebellar Models by Baxendale, Mark D., Pearson, Martin J., Nibouche, Mokhtar, Secco, Emanuele Lindo, Pipe, Anthony G.

“…A robot audio localization system is presented that combines the outputs of multiple adaptive filter models of the Cerebellum to calibrate a robot's audio map…”
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Adaptive Cancelation of Self-Generated Sensory Signals in a Whisking Robot by Anderson, S R, Pearson, M J, Pipe, A, Prescott, T, Dean, P, Porrill, J

“…Sensory signals are often caused by one's own active movements. This raises a problem of discriminating between self-generated sensory signals and signals…”
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Biohybrid Control of General Linear Systems Using the Adaptive Filter Model of Cerebellum by Wilson, Emma D, Assaf, Tareq, Pearson, Martin J, Rossiter, Jonathan M, Dean, Paul, Anderson, Sean R, Porrill, John

“…The adaptive filter model of the cerebellar microcircuit has been successfully applied to biological motor control problems, such as the vestibulo-ocular…”
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