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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Change-Ability for a World in Flux	16
Editorial – The affordances of art	14
The temporal and affective structure of living systems: A thermodynamic perspective	13
The contingent animal: does artificial innateness misrepresent behavioral development?	12
Entropy and Fluctuation Analysis of Horse Riders During Extended and Collected Gait Motions	11
Closing the Cartesian Bureau de Change	11
From interaction to transaction: The primacy of movement and the event as irreducible unit	10
A Framework for Interpersonal Synergy Research—Contexts, Theories, and Methods	10
Less-is-More and Embodiment—How the Body Simplifies Cognition	10
Engaging with art skillfully. First steps towards an ecological-enactive account of the experience of art	9
A model of how hierarchical representations constructed in the hippocampus are used to navigate through space	9
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on the course-of-experience framework	8
Pathological Complexity Theory and the Piping Plover	8
Modelling of factors underlying the evolution of human language	7
Swarm analytics: Designing information markers to characterise swarm systems in shepherding contexts	6
From Animals to Animats: The Tradition Continues	5
On motivating irruptions: the need for a multilevel approach at the interface between life and mind	5
Comparative Consciousness Research in Ecological Context: Elephants, Macaques, Plovers, and a Case Against Plant Consciousness	5
The roots and blossoms of 4E cognition in Chile: Introduction to the Special Issue on 4E cognition in Chile	5
The 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior - Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals	4
Pathological Complexity and the Function of Consciousness in Nature: Part 1	4
Cultural Evolution, Disinformation, and Social Division	4
Nectar of the Bots: Evolving Bidirectional Referential Communication	4
The role of consciousness in adaptive behaviour: A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness	4
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
The Gordian Knot of Consciousness Meets the Sword of Darwinism	4
Irruption Theory in Phase Transitions: A Proof of Concept With the Haken-Kelso-Bunz Model	3
Perceiving and creating atmospheres: how ecological-enactive cognition can explain and inform architectural practice	3
Stigmergic coordination and minimal cognition in plants	3
Developing Performance in Sports Teams Through a Collective Homeostasis Model Supports Regulation, Adaptation, and Evolution in Competition	3
Toward a solid philosophical foundation of animal consciousness research: bridging some conceptual gaps	3
Entangled cognition in immersive learning experience	3
A unifying method-based classification of robot swarm spatial self-organisation behaviours	3
Pathological complexity and African elephant consciousness	3
As Above, so Below? The Limits of Evolutionary Considerations for Supporting Hypotheses About Consciousness	3
Animals in Sociomaterial Processes: An Alternative to Inferential Processes in Animals’ Heads	3
Corrigendum to “Design for Autonomy: An Enactive Approach to Human–Computer Interaction”	2
Creativity: An Individual or Collective Phenomenon? A Historical-Psychological Perspective	2
What affords being creative? Opportunities for novelty in light of perception, embodied activity, and imaginative skill	2
Entangled Agencies: The Enactive Approach and Eco-Evo-Devo in the Scientific Study of Sympoiesis as a Dialectics of Life	2
Mechanical Problem Solving in Goffin’s Cockatoos—Towards Modeling Complex Behavior	2
Classical sorting algorithms as a model of morphogenesis: Self-sorting arrays reveal unexpected competencies in a minimal model of basal intelligence	2
Beyond Control: Finding the Purpose of Enactive Cognitive Science	2
Underdetermination and causality in Irruption Theory: A critical analysis from a complex systems perspective	2
In Which Sense Should We be Radical? On Two Radical Alternatives to Cognitivism	2
Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations	2
Walking in Social Groups: Role of Intra-Group Interactions	2
Using habituation as a simple and fundamental learning mechanism in an embodied artificial agent	2
Exploring the Interplay Between Humans and Sports Equipment in the Quest for Performance	2
Cobots, Complexities, and Campfire: Report on the 4th HRI Summer School	2
Beyond boundaries: The present and future of 4E cognitive science in interdisciplinary academia, industry, and everyday life	2
From Complexity to Clarity: Confronting Situated Cognition’s Motley Crew Argument	2
Reinforcement learning-based aggregation for robot swarms	2
Adaptive, Goal-Oriented Navigation Using a Model of Directionally-Polarized Place Cells	2
Pathological Complexity and the Function of Consciousness in Nature: Part 2	1
Evolutionary Factors Contributing to the Emergence of Prediction	1
Affect is the Evaluative Context for the Brain’s Shifting Goals	1
Investigating dominant situation of resting behavior as a potential labor pool in robotic swarm for group foraging	1
Modeling Neurocognitive Mechanisms in Multistable Perception: Insights Into Variability in Autism	1
The origin and function of external representations	1
A Data-Inspired Framework to Simulate Collective Behaviour of Predator-Prey Systems	1
Noisy Memory Generates Value in Changing Environments	1
The affordances of art for making technologies	1
Hyperscanning speaks to the need to revise our understanding of the mind‒brain relation	1
A two-stage multi-attribute group consensus model based on distributed linguistic assessment information from the perspective of fairness concern	1
On the Unexpected Abilities of Large Language Models	1
Design for Autonomy: An Enactive Approach to Human–Computer Interaction	1
Can perception be extended to a “feel of north”? Tests of automaticity with the NaviEar	1
Enactivism: Progressive, Pluralist—or Just Halfway Empiricism?	1
Coupling first-person cognitive research with neurophilosophy and enactivism: An outline of arguments	1
Circular formations of non-communicating robot groups via local strategies	1
What’s a good prediction? Challenges in evaluating an agent’s knowledge	1
Combining imitation and deep reinforcement learning to human-level performance on a virtual foraging task	1
Author’s reply to the commentaries: Clearing up misunderstandings about the course-of-experience framework and laying the groundwork for future discussions	1

Dual Process Theory for Large Language Models: An overview of using Psychology to address hallucination and reliability issues	1
Familiarity-taxis: A bilateral approach to view-based snapshot navigation	1
Human Exploration in Complex Problem-Solving Tasks: More Effortful Interaction Leads to Higher Efficiency	1
On the Evolution, Science, and Metaphysics of Consciousness	1
Avoiding organismic asymmetries in ecological cognition: Analysis of agent-environment couplings with eco-physical variables	1
From Autopoiesis to Symbiotic Entanglement: Rethinking Enactivism Through Metabolism and Microbes	1