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Education
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1989
Research Interests
My primary research interest is in understanding how coordinated behavior arises from the dynamical interaction of an animal's nervous system, its body and its environment. Toward this end, I work on the evolution and analysis of dynamical "nervous systems" for model agents, neuromechanical modeling of animals, biologically-inspired robotics, and dynamical systems approaches to behavior and cognition. More generally, I am interested in computational and theoretical biology, including models of metabolism, gene regulation and development. I also have a longstanding interest in the design and implementation of dynamic programming languages and their programming environments.
Representative Publications
Beer, R.D. (in press). Parameter space structure of continuous-time recurrent neural networks. To appear in Neural Computation.
Psujek, S., Ames, J. and Beer, R.D. (2006). Connection and coordination: The interplay between architecture and dynamics in evolved model pattern generators. Neural Computation 18:729-747.
Beer, R.D. (2004). Autopoiesis and cognition in the game of Life. Artificial Life 10(3):309-326.
Beer, R.D. (2003). The dynamics of active categorical perception in an evolved model agent (with commentary and response). Adaptive Behavior 11(4):209-243.
Beer, R.D. (2000). Dynamical approaches to cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4(3):91-99.
Calvitti, A. and Beer, R.D. (2000). Analysis of a distributed model of leg coordination. I. Individual coordination mechanisms. Biological Cybernetics 82:197-206.
Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1997). The brain has a body: Adaptive behavior emerges from interactions of nervous system, body and environment. Trends in Neurosciences 20:553-557.
Beer, R.D. (1995). A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction. Artificial Intelligence 72:173-215.
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