OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Adaptive Behavior is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The temporal and affective structure of living systems: A thermodynamic perspective	37
The contingent animal: does artificial innateness misrepresent behavioral development?	33
Toward a science of experience: Outlining some challenges and future directions	16
Entropy and Fluctuation Analysis of Horse Riders During Extended and Collected Gait Motions	13
Editorial – The affordances of art	12
Closing the Cartesian Bureau de Change	12
Change-Ability for a World in Flux	11
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on the course-of-experience framework	10
Pathological Complexity Theory and the Piping Plover	10
From interaction to transaction: The primacy of movement and the event as irreducible unit	9
On motivating irruptions: the need for a multilevel approach at the interface between life and mind	9
A model of how hierarchical representations constructed in the hippocampus are used to navigate through space	9
Engaging with art skillfully. First steps towards an ecological-enactive account of the experience of art	9
Swarm analytics: Designing information markers to characterise swarm systems in shepherding contexts	8
Modelling of factors underlying the evolution of human language	8
The roots and blossoms of 4E cognition in Chile: Introduction to the Special Issue on 4E cognition in Chile	8
From Animals to Animats: The Tradition Continues	6
Comparative Consciousness Research in Ecological Context: Elephants, Macaques, Plovers, and a Case Against Plant Consciousness	6
Cultural Evolution, Disinformation, and Social Division	5
“What’s done is done, the bullet’s left the gun”: Questions on the Application, Origin, and Metaphysics of the «Course-of-Experience Framework»	5
The Gordian Knot of Consciousness Meets the Sword of Darwinism	5
A framework for visual-based adaptive object-robot interaction of a mobile service robot	4
Transfer of Recalibration in Perceiving Surface Distance With a Haptic Sensory Substitution Device	4
Pathological Complexity and the Function of Consciousness in Nature: Part 1	4
The role of consciousness in adaptive behaviour: A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness	4

Adaptive functions in an agent-based model of an economic system	4
A unifying method-based classification of robot swarm spatial self-organisation behaviours	3
Beyond belongingness: Rethinking innate behavioral predispositions, learning constraints, and cognitive capacities	3
The 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior - Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals	3
Entangled cognition in immersive learning experience	3
Perceiving and creating atmospheres: how ecological-enactive cognition can explain and inform architectural practice	3
Nectar of the Bots: Evolving Bidirectional Referential Communication	3
Pathological complexity and African elephant consciousness	3
Toward a solid philosophical foundation of animal consciousness research: bridging some conceptual gaps	3
Animals in Sociomaterial Processes: An Alternative to Inferential Processes in Animals’ Heads	3
Developing Performance in Sports Teams Through a Collective Homeostasis Model Supports Regulation, Adaptation, and Evolution in Competition	3
Irruption Theory in Phase Transitions: A Proof of Concept With the Haken-Kelso-Bunz Model	3
Stigmergic coordination and minimal cognition in plants	2
Human perception of intrinsically motivated autonomy in human-robot interaction	2
Mobile Brain/Body Imaging: Challenges and opportunities for the implementation of research programs based on the 4E perspective to cognition	2
Using habituation as a simple and fundamental learning mechanism in an embodied artificial agent	2
Walking in Social Groups: Role of Intra-Group Interactions	2
As Above, so Below? The Limits of Evolutionary Considerations for Supporting Hypotheses About Consciousness	2
Self-organisation, (M, R)–systems and enactive cognitive science	2
Cobots, Complexities, and Campfire: Report on the 4th HRI Summer School	2
Adaptive, Goal-Oriented Navigation Using a Model of Directionally-Polarized Place Cells	2
Underdetermination and causality in Irruption Theory: A critical analysis from a complex systems perspective	2
An aftertaste of Cartesian salad? Pre-reflective self-consciousness, Peirce, and the study of cognition in the wild	2
Values define agency: Ecological and enactive perspectives reconsidered	2
Mechanical Problem Solving in Goffin’s Cockatoos—Towards Modeling Complex Behavior	2
Reinforcement learning-based aggregation for robot swarms	2
Exploring the Interplay Between Humans and Sports Equipment in the Quest for Performance	2
Classical sorting algorithms as a model of morphogenesis: Self-sorting arrays reveal unexpected competencies in a minimal model of basal intelligence	2
Suffering and sense of self: The tension between reflection and experience—The case of depression	1
Avoiding organismic asymmetries in ecological cognition: Analysis of agent-environment couplings with eco-physical variables	1
A micro-phenomenological and semiotic approach to cognition in practice: a path toward an integrative approach to studying cognition-in-the-world and from within	1
Can perception be extended to a “feel of north”? Tests of automaticity with the NaviEar	1
What’s a good prediction? Challenges in evaluating an agent’s knowledge	1
Evolutionary Factors Contributing to the Emergence of Prediction	1
Affect is the Evaluative Context for the Brain’s Shifting Goals	1
A two-stage multi-attribute group consensus model based on distributed linguistic assessment information from the perspective of fairness concern	1
Control mechanisms: Explaining the integration and versatility of biological organisms	1
On the Unexpected Abilities of Large Language Models	1
Circular formations of non-communicating robot groups via local strategies	1
Environmental complexity, cognition, and plant stress physiology	1
Functional relation between postural sway and saccadic eye movements is strong and not altered by moving visual environment and concomitant memory task	1
The origin and function of external representations	1
Coupling first-person cognitive research with neurophilosophy and enactivism: An outline of arguments	1
Noisy Memory Generates Value in Changing Environments	1
The affordances of art for making technologies	1
Modeling Neurocognitive Mechanisms in Multistable Perception: Insights Into Variability in Autism	1
Familiarity-taxis: A bilateral approach to view-based snapshot navigation	1
Beyond boundaries: The present and future of 4E cognitive science in interdisciplinary academia, industry, and everyday life	1
Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations	1
Creativity: An Individual or Collective Phenomenon? A Historical-Psychological Perspective	1

Blurring ontological boundaries: The transactional nature of material engagement	1
Review of Thomas Fuchs—In Defense of the Human Being	1
Functional adaptability in playing style: A key determinant of competitive football performance	1
On the Evolution, Science, and Metaphysics of Consciousness	1
A Data-Inspired Framework to Simulate Collective Behaviour of Predator-Prey Systems	1
The hydrated mind, the glycolytic mind, and the holobiont mind	1
Design for Autonomy: An Enactive Approach to Human–Computer Interaction	1
Hyperscanning speaks to the need to revise our understanding of the mind‒brain relation	1
Combining imitation and deep reinforcement learning to human-level performance on a virtual foraging task	1
Pathological Complexity and the Function of Consciousness in Nature: Part 2	1
Author’s reply to the commentaries: Clearing up misunderstandings about the course-of-experience framework and laying the groundwork for future discussions	1
What affords being creative? Opportunities for novelty in light of perception, embodied activity, and imaginative skill	1
Dual Process Theory for Large Language Models: An overview of using Psychology to address hallucination and reliability issues	1
Investigating dominant situation of resting behavior as a potential labor pool in robotic swarm for group foraging	1
Connecting with the subject of our science: Course-of-experience research supports valid theory building in cognitive science	1
Human Exploration in Complex Problem-Solving Tasks: More Effortful Interaction Leads to Higher Efficiency	1
From Autopoiesis to Symbiotic Entanglement: Rethinking Enactivism Through Metabolism and Microbes	1