Bill Seeley
Bates College
Department of Philosophy
Student Collaborations & Projects:
!RobotRodeo!
/*Look Ma, No Plans*/
Evolutionary
Robotics, Bates College 2015 (with Peter Cole & Greggory Heller).
Lego Robotics
& Embodied Cognition Lab - Phil321h, Bates College, Winter 2015.
Robot Rodeo Lab,
Bates College 2014 (with Claire Bartell & Juergen Kritschgau).
Embodied Cognition & Artificial Life -
Phil321h, Bates College, April 11, 2012.
Is Olfaction
Really an Outlier? A Review of Anatomical and Functional Evidence for a
Cortico-Thalamic Olfactory Attentional Circuit (2015-2017) - with Julie
Self (Neuroscience, Bates College, 2018).
The Philosophy and Robotics Primer:
Teaching Philosophy with Lego Robots (lab manual / book proposal) (2014 – 2018) –
with Joseph Tulip (Chemistry, Bates College, 2018), Claire Bartell
(Biology/Philosophy, Bates College, 2016), and Peter Cole (Physics, Bates
College, 2015).
The
Collaborative Drawing Project: Drawings after Sol LeWitt (2007-2016,
Bates College and Franklin & Marshall College).
Sensorimotor
Strategies for Object Categorization Through Environmental Interaction: A
Study in Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Representation (2015-2016) -
with Juergen Kritschgau (Philosophy Bates College, 2016), supported
by a Hoffman Summer Research Fellowship: $3500).
Embodied
Cognition, Intelligent Behavior and the Philosophy of Mind: Teaching
Philosophy with Lego Robots (2015-2016) - with Claire Bartell (Biology/Philosophy,
Bates College, 2016).
The Kindergarten Learning Approach:
Implementing Early STEM Learning in
the Classroom with Lego Robots (2015-2016) – with Joseph Tulip (Chemistry,
Bates College, 2018).
Association
Learning and Evolved Neural Network Controllers: Implementing Scalable
Architectures for Modeling Intelligent Behaviors in Lego NXT Robots (2015)
- with Peter Cole (Physics, Bates College, 2015) mad Greggory Heller
(Neuroscience, Bates College, 2016).
Image Analysis and Visual Stylometry: Hue,
Saturation, Luminance and Contour as Markers of Categories of Art
(2013-2014) - with Catherine Buell (Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics) and Mathieu Duvall (Director, Imaging Center), Bates College.
Experiencing
the Mind: A Webresource for Consciousness Studies (with Zena
Sabath, Mariya Manahova, and Evan Beinecke (Independent
project in Consciousness Studies- IS360 Fall 2013)
Does visuomotor skill confer an advantage in gestalt completion
tasks and out-of-focus picture recognition
in baseball and softball players (2013) - (with Elise Levesque (Psychology,
Bates College, 2013), Erin Harmon (Politics, Bates College, 2013), and
Travis Boyle (Mathematics, Bates College, 2014).
Motor Skill as a Mediating Variable in the Effects of Energetic
Costs on Apparent Egocentric Distance (2012) - with Zena Sabath
(Chemistry/Philosophy, 2014), Greer Chapman (Biology, Bates College, 2013),
and Professor Todd Kahan, Department of Psychology, Bates College.
The Influence of Art Historical Knowledge on Gaze Strategies in
Viewers' Engagement with Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (2012-2013) - with Tavis Cantania
(Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College, 2013) and Professor Tony
Chemero, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati.
Looking at Mona Lisa: A Psychophysiological
Study (2012) - with Tavis Cantania (Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College,
2013) and Professor Tony Chemero, Department of Psychology, University of
Cincinnatti.
Movements
& Marks: A Collaborative Choreographic Drawing Project & Automatic Dancing (1112131411)
- with Rachel Boggia, Department of Dance, Bates College, Mathieu Duvall,
Director, Imaging Center, Bates College, and the students of Atelier-DNMU337 & The Bates Dance Ensemble, Bates
College, February/November 2011)
Constrained
Views, Natural Vistas, and the Constructed Landscape: Revealing a
Science-Based Approach to the Aesthetics of Nature (2011) - with Adam Agins, Bates College,
2011.
Motor
Simulation & the Effects of Energetic & Emotional Costs of Depicted
Actions in Picture Perception [Abstract]” (with Jessica Waughtel,
Neuroscience, Franklin & Marshall College, 2008) (2008). Journal of
Vision, 8(6), 2008: 1041a. doi:
10.1167/8.6.1041
In-Joint/Out-of-Joint: Motor
Simulation & the Perception of Biologically Possible/Impossible
Apparent Motion (with Angel Apell, Psychology, Franklin & Marshall
College, 2009).
Does Surface Electromyography Reveal
a Role for Motor Simulation in Picture Perception? (with Emily Halldorson,
Biology, Franklin & Marshall College, 2008).
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