[neuroling] CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS

From: Nathaniel Bobbitt <flautabaja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:48:56 -0800
Please distribute this Call For Papers to people who might beinterested. 
EXCUSE---CROSS---POSTINGWe invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive 
Computation fora special issue on Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating 
Computation andCognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline is 
March 31,2011. ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
===================== The prospect of direct biological computing accelerated 
with Gibson etal.'s (2010) synthetic incubation of a bacterial genome. 
Cognitivecomputation practices may supply synthetic biology with a 
biologicalsymbolic system, that is, facilitate the advent of biological 
machines:direct computing. The editors of the Cognitive Computation Journal 
haveacknowledged the timeliness to promote interdisciplinary research withinthe 
purview of living organisms and cognitive computation. Due to theunderlying 
spatial and self-modulating aspects of biological substratesit makes sense to 
consider the computational/cognitive capacity of livingorganisms. From the 
manipulation of biological substrates emerges theprospect to identify recipes 
for combinatorial, multidimensional, andtopological organizations with a 
dynamics that escape conventionalspatial or time-spatial representation. The 
integration of computationand cognition on biological grounds has the prospect 
of pointing at aboundary system that is excitable, configurable, and 
manipulated withinthe framework of living organisms and their biological 
substrates. Thenext step in the development of direct computing hinges upon 
thedevelopment of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. To meet 
this next step in computing specialized biological research willrevisit the 
pioneering olfactory receptor research pioneered by LindaBuck and Richard Axel 
(Nobel Prize) and the bio-luminescent in quorumsensing by Bonnie Blassler 
(Princeton and Howard Hughes Institute). Theuse of chemical signals or 
bioluminescent substrates bring furtherexpertise to foster synthetic biology 
developed at JC Venter Institute. Authors are invited to submit original and 
unpublished research.Relevant areas of investigation and expertise include, but 
are notlimited to: • synthetic biology • membrane, natural, or evolutionary 
computing • unconventional and quantum computing • computational intelligence • 
bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers • gene regulation in sensory pathways • 
protein folding/misfolding (in vivo, Alzheimer's) • multi-sensory processing 
(visuo-tactile, motor-sensory, feedbacksystems) • pharmaceutical and biomedical 
cellular delivery systems • chemical ecology, chemosensory experimentation• 
membrane channels, action potentials, voltage clamps, orneurotransmitters • 
aliphatic odors, combinatorial encoding, or predictive chemosensorymodels • 
dynamic olfactory architectures (metabolism and olfaction inneurobiology) • 
neuroanatomy or neurophysiology (glia, glomeruli, photoreceptors,olfactory 
receptors, neural firing) • theory of mind, simulation theory experimentation, 
or synapticsignaling • theory of intelligence, consciousness • hierarchical 
temporal memory, heterogenous logic • combinatorial or multidimensional 
applications in granular/dynamicsystems • competitive games or visual 
experimentation on cognition, learning, ormemory • “games with purpose” or 
collaborative task experimentation • mirror neurons, body maps, or brain 
plasticity • frmi experiments (dyslexia, autism, aphasia, Alzheimer's Disease) 
• vertebrate/invertebrate sensory behavior and communication • evolutionary 
primatology color vision and olfaction (comparativegenomics or pseudogenes) • 
amphibian embryology transgenics and microsurgery • cladistics, phylogenetics, 
ontogeny, or sociobehavior across species • facet analysis or pixelization 
paradigm methods This call for papers will identify researchers from systematic 
biology,neuroscience,topology, and related fields as they contribute to 
computerscience and the development of biological machines. Accepted research 
falls into oneof two categories: biological-computing or cognitive 
computation.Pointing at boundaries in vivo extends in vitro research. 
Thusbiological substrates points us toward far-reaching social, medical, 
andcommunication frameworks. This special issue is expected to appear in 
MAR/JUN 2012. Post submissions at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/ 
Nathaniel Bobbitt Guest Editor bobbittn@xxxxxxx Important Dates 
--------------------- Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAR 31, 
2011 First notification of acceptance: JUL 15, 2011 Submission of revised 
papers: SEP 15, 2011 Final notification to the authors: DEC 15, 2011 Submission 
of final/camera-ready papers: JAN 15, 2012http://www.springer.com/journal/12559
[neuroling] CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS

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