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Book Chapters

• Ciria, A. & Lara, B. (in press). Mecanismo cognitivo fundacional: la minimización del error predictivo. En Temas controversiales en comportamiento y cognición (Capítulo 9).
  
  
• Lara, Bruno, and Alejandra Ciria. "La cognición extendida y la forma tecnológica de vida." Rompiendo fronteras. 2023. (67-78). Publicaciones UAEM.
  
  
• Lara, Bruno; Ciria, Alejandra; Escobar, Esau; Gaona, Wilmer; Hermosillo, Jorge; Cognitive Robotics: The new challenges in artificial intelligence. Advanced Topics on Computer Vision, Control and Robotics in Mechatronics. Springer International Publishing. 2018, (321 - 347) 10.1007/978-3-319-77770-2_12
  
  
• Valenzo D., Astorga D., Ciria A. and Lara B.; Learning in biologically inspired neural networks for robot control. Advanced Topics on Computer Vision, Control and Robotics in Mechatronics. Springer, Cham. 2018, (131 - 164) 10.1007/978-3-319-77770-2_6
  
  
• Bruno Lara y Jorge Hermosillo. Inteligencia y Robótica Corporizada. In Eds. J. González, P. Hernández y J. García (Eds), Cognición: enfoques contemporáneos. Editorial del Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano. 2012. (ISBN 978-607-466-051).
  
  
• B. Lara, L. D. Seneviratne, K. Althoefer. Automated screw insertion monitoring using neural networks: A computational intelligence approach to assembly in manufacturing. In H.K. Lam, S.H. Ling and H.T. Nguyen (Eds), Computational Intelligence and its Applica- tions: Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Techniques, World Scientific, pp. 183-208, (July, 2012).

Articles

• Ciria, A., Albarracin, M., Miller, M., & Lara, B. (under review). Social Media Platforms: Trading with Prediction Error Minimization for your Attention. Information (preprint).
  
  
• Taniguchi, T., Murata, S., Suzuki, M., Ognibene, D., Lanillos, P., Ugur, E., Jamone, L., Nakamura, T., Ciria, A., Lara, B., and Pezzulo, G. (2023) World Models and Predictive Coding for Cognitive and Developmental Robotics: Frontiers and Challenges. Advanced Robotics.
  
  
• Pardo, M., Ciria, A. & Lara, B. (2023). Emergence of altruistic behavior in heterogeneous populations of artificial agents. Adaptive Behavior.
  
  
• Flores-Coronado, M. A., Ciria, A., & Lara, B. (2022). Multimodal integration as predictions. An explanation of the McGurk effect. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).
  
  
• Valenzo, Diana; Ciria, Alejandra; Schillaci, Guido; Lara, Bruno; Grounding Context in Embodied Cognitive Robotics. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 2022, 16. 10.3389/fnbot.2022.843108
  
  
• Ciria, Alejandra; Schillaci, Guido; Pezzulo, Giovanni; Hafner, Verena V.; Lara, Bruno; Preditive Processing in Cognitive Robotics: A Review. Neural Computation. 2021, 33 5 (1402 - 1432) 10.1162/co_a_01383
  
  
• Santos, V. H., Pardo, M., Ciria, A., & Lara, B. (2020). Evolution of Basic Communication Strategies in Artificial Agents. International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, 12(1), 29-41.
  
  
• Lara, Bruno;Gaona, Wilmer;Escobar, Esaú;Pardo, José Manuel;Hermosillo-Valadez, Jorge. (2020) Development of body-based spatial knowledge through mental imagery in an artificial agent. Adaptive Behavior. 10.1177/1059712319895604.
  
  
• Villalpando, Antonio Pico;Schillaci, Guido;Hafner, Verena V.;Guzmán, Bruno Lara; Ego-Noise Predictions for Echolocation in Wheeled Robots. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press. 2019, (567 - 573) 10.1162/isal_a_00222
  
  
• Ciria, Alejandra;López, Florente;Lara, Bruno (2019). Perceived Duration: The Interplay of Top-Down Attention and Task-Relevant Information. Frontiers in Psychology. 210 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00490.
  
  
• Lara, Bruno;Astorga, Dadai;Mendoza-Bock, Emmanuel;Pardo, Manuel;Escobar, Esaú;Ciria, Alejandra. (2018). Embodied cognitive robotics and the learning of sensorimotor schemes. Adaptive Behavior. 26 5 (225 - 238) 10.1177/1059712318780679
  
  
• Palacios-Leyva, R., Aldana-Franco, F., Lara-Guzmán, B., & Montes-González, F. (2017) The impact of population composition for cooperation emergence in evolutionary robotics. International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics. 8(3) (20 - 32) https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/2652/265254117003.pdf
  
  
• Pico, Antonio;Schillaci, Guido;Hafner, Verena V.;Lara, Bruno; On robots imitating movements through motor noise prediction. 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). IEEE. 2017, (318 - 323) 10.1109/DEVLRN.2017.8329824
  
  
• Miranda, L., López-Cruz, I.L., Lara, B., Schmidt, U.; Graphical representation of model performance as an aid for input selection in greenhouse models. Acta Horticulturae. 2017, 1182 (227 - 234) 10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1182.27
  
  
• Miranda, L., Lara, B., Rocksch, T., Dannehl, D., Schmidt, U.; Neural networks for simulation of transpiration and photosynthesis in a semi-closed greenhouse. Acta Horticulturae. 2017, 1170 (193 - 199) 10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1170.22
  
  
• Karla Javiera Baeza Mariscal, Jorge Hermosillo and Bruno Lara. "Intentionality And Internal Models In Artificial Agents". Inquiry. Ed. Taylor and Francis. ISSN 0020-174X (Print), 1502-3923 (Online). Accepted for publication.
  
  
• Esau Escobar, Guido Schillaci, Jorge Hermosillo and Bruno Lara. "A Self Organized Inter- nal Models Architecture for Coding Sensorymotor Schemes". Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Special issue: Re-enacting sensorimotor experience for cognition. Vol 3:22. April 2016.
  
  
• Guido Schillaci, Verena Vanessa Hafner and Bruno Lara. "Sensorimotor learning, body repre- sentations and sensorimotor simulations for cognition". Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Special issue: Re-enacting sensorimotor experience for cognition. Submitted.
  
  
• David Harrington, Gloria Koenigsberger, Enrique Olguin, Ilya Ilyin, Svetlana V. Berdyug- ina, Bruno Lara, and Edmundo Moreno. "Alpha Virginis: line-profile variations and orbital elements". Astronomy & Astrophysics. ISSN: 0004-6361
  
  
• Gaona, Wilmer, Esa Escobar, Jorge Hermosillo, and Bruno Lara. "Adquisicióon de conceptos espaciales en un agente autóonomo artificial a través de simulaciones internas." Nova Scientia, 7(14), 2015. 127-161. ISSN 2007-0705.
  
  
• Gaona, Wilmer, Esau Escobar, Jorge Hermosillo, and Bruno Lara. "Anticipation by multi- modal association through an artificial mental imagery process." Connection Science. Vol 27 Iss. 1, 2015. ISSN 0954-0091 (Print), 1360-0494 (Online).
  
  
• David Castillo Arceo, Esa Escobar, Jorge Hermosillo y Bruno Lara. Modelado de un Sistema de Neuronas Espejo en un Agente Autónomo Artificial. Nova Scientia. Vol 5 (10). 2013. ISSN 2007 - 0705.
  
  
• Schillaci, G., Lara, B., Hafner, V.: Internal Simulations for Behaviour Selection and Recog- nition . In: Salah, A., Ruiz-del Solar, J., Mericli, C ., Oudeyer, P.Y. (eds.) Human Behavior Understanding, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7559, pp. 148160. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg (2012)
  
  
• D. Rodríguez, J. Hermosillo, and B. Lara, Meaning in artificial agents: The symbol ground- ing problem revisited, Minds and Machines 22(1): 25-34. (2012) ISSN: 0924-6495. Springer Verlag.
  
  
• Juan M. Rend&ocuten, Marco A. García, Antonio Cárdenas, Bruno Lara and Emilio González- Galván. Robot Positioning using Camera-Space Manipulation with a Linear Camera Model. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Vol. 26 No. 4. 2010. pp. 726-733. ISSN 1552-3098.
  
  
• Marcos Aurelio Capistrán-Ocampo, Miguel Angel Moreles Vazquez and Bruno Lara-Guzmán. Parameter Estimation of Some Epidemic Models. The Case of Recurrent Epidemics caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Volume 71, Number 8. November, 2009. ISSN 0092-8240 (Print) 1522-9602 (Online). Springer.
  
  
• K Althoefer, B Lara, Y H Zweiri and L D Seneviratne. Automated failure classification for assembly with self-tapping threaded fastenings using artificial neural networks Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. Volume 222, Issue - 6. Pp. 1081 - 1095. Issue Cover Date - 2008-06-01. ISSN 0954-4062.
  
  
• Bruno Lara, Juan Manuel Rendn-Mancha and Marcos A. Capistran. Predicción de Situaciones no Deseadas Basada en Representaciones Multimodales IEEE América Latina. May 2007. Volume: 5, Issue: 2. ISSN: 1548-0992.
  
  
• Bruno Lara, Juan M. Rendon, Marcos Capistrán Forward Models and the Prediction of Undesired Situations. Journal Research in Computing Science. Vol. 21. ISSN 1870-4069. Pp. 161-170. 2006.
  
  
• K. Althoefer, B. Lara, L. D. Seneviratne. Monitoring of Self-Tapping Screw Fastenings Using Artificial Neural Networks, Transactions of the ASME: Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Volume 127, Issue 1, pp. 236-243, February 2005. ISSN 0022- 1817.
  
  
• Pasemann, F., Steinmetz, U., Huelse, M., and Lara, B., Robot Control and the Evolution of Modular Neurodynamics, Theory in Biosciences, 120, pp. 311–326, 2001.
  
  
• Huelse, M., Lara, B., Pasemann, F., Steinmetz, U., Evolving neural behavior control for autonomous robots, in: Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2001: International Conference. G. Dorffner, H. Bischof, and K. Hornik (Eds.), LNCS 2130, pp. 957–962, 2001. Springer Verlag GmbH.
  
  
• Pasemann, F., Steinmetz, U., Hu ̈lse, M., and Lara, B., Evolving brain structures for robot control, in: Bio-inspired Applications of Connectionism, 6th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2001. Mira, Jose; Prieto, Alberto (Eds.), LNCS 2085, pp. 410-417, 2001. Springer Verlag GmbH.
  
  
• B. Lara, L. D. Senevirante, K. Althoefer. Screw Insertion Error Classification Using Radial Basis Artificial Neural Networks, Neural Network World. 10(4):641-652. 2000.

Conferences

• Schillaci, G., Ciria, A., & Lara, B. (2020, October). Tracking Emotions: Intrinsic Motivation Grounded on Multi-Level Prediction Error Dynamics. In 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
• Schillaci, G., Hafner, V.V., Lara, B., Online Learning of Visuo-Motor Coordination in a Humanoid Robot. A Biologically Inspired Model, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2014), Genova, Italy, October, 2014.
• Bruno Lara. Spatial Cognition in Robotics, in Dagstuhl Reports. Volume 4. Number 3. Dagstuhl, Germany. Editor Aldo Gangemi and Verena V. Hafner and Werner Kuhn and Simon Scheider and Luc Steels. ISSN 2192-5283. Publisher Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz- Zentrum fuer Informatik. 2014.
• Schillaci, G., Hafner, V. V., Lara, B., I Know How I Would Do It. Internal Simulations of Sensorimotor Experience. Robotics Science and Systems Conference, Workshop in Active learning in Robotics: Exploration, Curiosity, and Interaction. Berlin, Germany. June, 2013.
• Bodiroa, S., Jevti, A., Lara, B. and Hafner, V. V. (2013), Learning Motion Control for Guiding a Robot using Gestures, presented at the 4th Israeli Conference on Robotics, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Bodiroa, S., Jevti, A., Lara, B. and Hafner, V. V. (2013),Learning the Relation of Motion Control and Gestures Through Self-Exploration, in Proceedings of the Robotics Challenges and Vision Workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2013), Berlin, Ger- many.
• Guido Schillaci, Verena Hafner, Bruno Lara and Marc Grosjean. Is That Me? Sensorimotor Learning and Self-Other Distinction in Robotics. 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2013. Tokyo, Japan.
• Esau Escobar, Jorge Hermosillo and Bruno Lara. Self Body Mapping in Mobile Robots Using Vision and Forward Models Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference (CERMA’12), 2012. IEEE indexed.
• Wilmer Gaona, Jorge Hermosillo, Bruno Lara. Distance Perception in Mobile Robots as an Emergent Consequence of Visuo-Motor Cycles Using Forward Models Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference (CERMA’12), 2012. IEEE indexed.
• Guido Schillaci, Bruno Lara and Verena Hafner. Internal Simulation of the Sensorimo- tor Loop in Action Execution and Recognition. 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems. Feb. 22-23 2012 TU Viena, Austria.
• Guido Schillaci, Verena Hafner and Bruno Lara. Coupled Inverse-Forward Models for Action Execution Leading to Tool-Use in a Humanoid Robot. 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2012. Boston, Mass.
• Schillaci, G., Hafner, V. V., Lara, B., Sensorimotor Loop Simulations as a Prerequisite for Imitation. Experiments with a Humanoid Robot, In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge through Interaction: How children learn about self, others and objects, Heidelberg. 2012.
• Dairon Rodriguez, Jorge Hermosillo and Bruno Lara. The chinese room argument and the symbol grounding problem: A new perspective. 14TH Congress of Logic, Methodology and Phylosophy of Science. NANCY, JULY 19-26, 2011.
• Bruno Lara and Jorge Hermosillo. Cognitive Hybrid Control of an Autonomous Agent cerma, pp. 526-531, Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference (CERMA’08), 2008. IEEE indexed. ISBN:978-0-7695-3320-9.
• Bruno Lara, Juan M. Rendon and Marcos Capistran. Prediction of Multi-modal Sensory Sit- uations, a Forward Model Approach. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Latin America Robotics Symposium. Volume 1, 2007.
• Bruno Lara, Juan M. Rendon, Prediction of Undesired Situations Based on Multi-Modal Representations, cerma, pp. 131-136, Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference (CERMA’06), 2006. IEEE indexed. ISBN:0-7695-2569-5.
• Juan Manuel Rendon, Marcos Capistran, Bruno Lara. A Discrete Reaction-Diffusion Opera- tor for Moving Curves and Edge Detection, pp. 24-29, Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference (CERMA’06), 2006. IEEE indexed. ISBN:0-7695-2569-5.
• Lara, B., Hu ̈lse, M., and Pasemann, F., Evolving Neuro-Modules and their Interfaces to Control Autonomous Robots, MPI-MIS-Preprint 21/2001, World Multiconference on Sys- temics, Cybernetics and Informatics 2001, Proceedings, Vol. IX, Industrial Systems: Part I, pp. 259–264, 2001.
• B. Lara, L. D. Senevirante, K. Althoefer. Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Screw Insertion Error Classification, ISA 2000, December 12-15 2000, Australia.
• Lara, B., Seneviratne, L.D.Althoefer, K. Radial Basis Artificial Neural Networks for Screw Insertions Classification, Proc. of the Annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2000. San Francisco, U.S.A. August 22-28, 2000. ISBN: 0-7803- 5886-4.
• Lara, B., Althoefer, K., Seneviratne, L.D. Classification Strategy for Screw Insertions Using Artificial Neural Networks, Proc. of the IECONIP/ANZIIS/ANNES ’99 International Workshop. Pp. 53-56. Dunedin, New Zealand, 22-23 November 1999.
• Bruno Lara, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Use of Artificial Neural Networks for the Monitoring of Screw Insertions, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’99), Vol. 1, pp. 579-584, Kyongiu, Korea, 17-21 October 1999. ISBN: 0-7803-5184-3
• Lara, B., Althoefer, K., Seneviratne, L.D. Automated Robot-Based Screw Insertion, Proc. of the 24th Annual Conf. IEEE Ind. Electr. Soc.(IECON’98), Vol. 4, pp 2440-2445, Aachen, Germany, August 31-September 4,1998. ISBN: 0-7803-4503-7.