Prof Tony Prescott (ABRG Co-director)
Contact
- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TP, UK.
- Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 6547
- Fax: +44 (0) 114 276 6515 (shared with department)
- Email: t.j.prescott/at/sheffield.ac.uk
Summary
- I am a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, Co-Director of the University's Adaptive Behaviour Research Group and a Visiting Fellow at Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
My research is concerned with understanding brain function using methods in the computational, neural, and behavioural sciences. An important focus of is on comparing the control problems faced by animals and robots: (i) using insights from robotics and artificial intelligence to understand the control architecture of the brain, (ii) using evidence from brain evolution to inspire the design of robot control systems, and (iii) using robots to evaluate computational models of neural systems and to test hypotheses that are difficult to investigate in vivo.
Research Interests
- Active sensing (particularly active touch)
- Computational models of natural action selection
- The layered control architecture of the vertebrate brain
- Robot models of biological control systems
- Behavioural and cognitive deficits in Parkinson's Disease and Schizophrenia
- Dynamics of child development (focusing on Children's drawing skills)
Qualifications
- MA Psychology (Edinburgh, 1984)
- MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence (Aberdeen, 1989)
- PhD "Explorations in model-based and reinforcement learning" (Sheffield, 1994)
Web Resources - Ongoing Projects
- BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal ACtive Touch (BIOTACT) (2008-): Co-ordinator and Sheffield Principal Investigator for this EU Framework 7 project in collaboration with six research groups in seven countries. Research at Sheffield is focused on computational and ethological studies of active touch in the rat whisker system.
- Integrating cognition, emotion, and autonomy (ICEA) (2006-): Sheffield Principal Investigator on an EU Framework 6 project in collaboration with various European partners to develop a mobile robot control system inspired by functional architecture of the rat brain. Research at Sheffield is focused on the computational neuroscience of spatial cognition and tactile sensing.
- Modelling the control architecture of the vertebrate brain (1998-): Computational and robotic models of functional systems in the vertebrate brain, currently focusing on the likely role of the basal ganglia and related structures in action selection. Currently funded by the EPSRC REVERB project.
- Action selection theme issue (2005-): Lead editor, with Joanna Bryson and Anil Seth (co-editors), of a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences on "Models of Natural Action Selection" with fifteen contributions from leading international research groups. The issue, which is based on a workshop held in Edinburgh in July 2005, has been available online and in print in since September 2007.
Web Resources - Past Projects
- Whiskerbot: a robot model of the rat whisker system 2003-2006): An EPSRC-funded project in collaboration with Bristol Robotics Laboratory to design and implement a multi-whisker sensory system, modelled on that of the rat, and capable of supporting object detection and surface texture analysis.
- The early evolution of spatial behaviour (1996-1997): Robot models of the 'trace fossil' patterns generated by PreCambrian animals.
- Spatial learning and navigation (1992-1996): Theoretical and computational approaches to navigation and spatial representation in animals and robots.
Details of external research funding
Forthcoming work
- Ben Mitchinson, Tak-Shing Chan, Jon Chambers, Martin Pearson, Mark Humphries, Charles Fox, Kevin Gurney, Tony J. Prescott (2009), BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation, Advanced Engineering Informatics, in press.
Peer-reviewed print articles
2009
- Fox, C., Humphries, M., Mitchinson, B., Kiss, T,; Somogyvari, Z. & Prescott, T. (2009), Technical integration of hippocampus, basal ganglia and physical models for spatial navigation , Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 3:6.
- Robyn Anne Grant, Ben Mitchinson, Charles W. Fox, and Tony J. Prescott (2009), Active touch sensing in the rat: Anticipatory and regulatory control of whisker movements during surface exploration, J Neurophysiol, 101:862-874.
2008
- Mitchinson B., Arabzadeh E., Diamond M. E., Prescott T. J. (2008), Spike-timing in primary sensory neurons: A model of somatosensory transduction in the rat, Biological Cybernetics, 98(3):185-194.
2007
- Montes-Gonzalez, F. M., Prescott, T. J., Negrete-Martinez, J. (2007), Minimizing human intervention in the development of basal ganglia inspired robot control, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 4(3): 101-109.
- Prescott, T. J., Bryson, J. J., Seth, A. (2007), Introduction to the theme issue on modelling natural action selection, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 36291485):1521-1529.
- Humphries, M. D., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. J. (2007), Is there a brainstem substrate for action selection?, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362(1485):1627-1639.
- Mitchinson B., Martin C.J., Grant R.A., Prescott T.J. (2007), Feedback control in active sensing: rat exploratory whisking is modulated by environmental contact, Royal Society Proceedings B, 274(1613).
- Prescott, T. J. (2007), Forced moves or good tricks in design space? Landmarks in the evolution of neural mechanisms for action selection, Adaptive Behavior, 15: 9-31.
- Prescott, T . J. & Humphries, M. D. (2007), Who dominates who in the dark basements of the brain? Commentary on Merker, B. “Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30:104-105.
- Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson and Tony J. Prescott (2007), Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on the Rat Whisker Sensory System, Adaptive Behavior, 15:223-240.
2006
- Prescott, T. J., Montes-Gonzalez, F., Gurney, K., Humphries, M. D. and Redgrave, P. (2006), A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing, Neural Networks, 19:31-61.
- Humphries, M. D., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. J. (2006), The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273:503-511.
- Humphries, M. D. & Prescott, T. J. (2006), Distributed action selection by a brainstem neural substrate: An embodied evaluation, From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, pp. 199-210, Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
- Mitchinson, B. Pearson, M., Melhuish, C., and Prescott, T.J. (2006), A model of sensorimotor co-ordination in the rat whisker system, From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4095). Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 77-88.
- Prescott, T. J., Newton, L. D., Mir, N. U., and Parks, R. W. (2006), A new dissimilarity measure for finding semantic structure in category fluency data with implications for understanding memory organization in schizophrenia, Neuropsychology, 20:685-99.
2005
- Humphries, M. D., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. J. (2005), Is there an integrative center in the vertebrate brain-stem? A robotic evaluation of a model of the reticular formation viewed as an action selection device, Adaptive Behaviour, 13:97-113.
- Pearson, M. J., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. G., Prescott, T. J. (2005), A biomimetic haptic sensor, Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2:335-343.
- Chambers, J. M., Gurney, K., Humphries, M. & Prescott, T. (2005), Mechanisms of choice in the primate brain: a quick look at positive feedback, Modelling Natural Action Selection, J. J. Bryson, T. J. Prescott & A. Seth, pp. 45-52, AISB Press..
- Humphries, M., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. (2005), Action selection in a macroscopic model of the brainstem reticular formation, Modelling Natural Action Selection, J. J. Bryson, T. J. Prescott & A. Seth, pp. 61-68, AISB Press.
- Pearson MJ, Gilhespy I, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche B, Pipe AG, Prescott TJ (2005), A Biologically inspired haptic sensor array for use in mobile robotic vehicles, Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Imperial College, London.
2004
- Gurney, K., Humphries, M., Wood, R., Prescott, T.J. & Redgrave, P. (2004), Testing computational hypotheses of brain systems function: a case study with the basal ganglia, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 15:263-290. [Code]
- Gurney, K., Prescott, T.J., Wickens, J. R. & Redgrave, P. (2004), Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes, Trends in Neurosciences, 27:453-459.
- Mitchinson, B. M., Gurney, K. N., Redgrave, P., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A. G., Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I. & Prescott, T. J. (2004), Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus-complex, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271:2509-2516.
2003
- J. Eiser, J. R., Fazio, R. H., Stafford, T. & Prescott, T. J. (2003), Connectionist simulation of attitude learning: Asymmetries in the acquisition of positive and negative evaluations, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29:1221-1235.
- Crowe, S. J. and T. J. Prescott (2003), Continuity and Change in the Development of Category Structure: Insights from the Semantic Fluency Task, International Journal of Behavioural Development, 27: 467-479.
- Humphries, M. D., Prescott, T. J. & Gurney, K. N. (2003), The interaction of recurrent axon collateral networks in the basal ganglia, Artifical Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing, O. Kaynak, E. Alpaydin, E. Oja & L. Xu (Eds.), ICANN/ICONIP 2003 (LNCS 2714) pp. 797-804, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Girard B, Cuzin V, Guillot A, Gurney KN, Prescott TJ (2003), Comparison of a “winner-takes-all” and a vertebrate inspired model of action selection embedded in a Lego Mindstorms robot , Journal of Integrative Neuroscience , 2:179-200.
2002
- Girard, B., Cuzin, V., Guillot, A., Gurney, K., and Prescott, T.J. (2002), Comparing a brain-inspired robot action selection mechanism with winner-takes-all, From Animals to Animats 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 75–84.
- Prescott, T. J., Gurney, K., Montes-Gonzalez, F., Humphries, M. and Redgrave, P. (2002), The robot basal ganglia: Action selection by an embedded model of the basal ganglia, Basal Ganglia VII, L. F. B. Nicholson and R. Faulls (Eds.) New York: Plenum Press.
2001
- Gurney, K., Redgrave, P. & Prescott, T.J. (2001b), A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour, Biological Cybernetics, 84:411-423.
- Gurney, K., Redgrave, P. & Prescott, T.J. (2001a), A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia I. A new functional anatomy, Biological Cybernetics, 84:401-410.
2000
- Montes Gonzalez, F. Prescott, T.J., Gurney, K. Humphries, M., & Redgrave, P. (2000), An embodied model of action selection mechanisms in the vertebrate brain, From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, J-A. Meyer, A. Berthoz, D. Floreano, H. Roitblat, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
1999
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J. & Gurney, K. (1999), The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?, Neuroscience, 89:1009-1023.
- Prescott, T.J., Redgrave, P., & Gurney, K. (1999), Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates, Adaptive Behavior, 7:99-127.
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J. & Gurney, K. (1999), Is the short latency dopamine burst too short to signal reinforcement error?, Trends in Neurosciences, 22:146-151.
1998
- Gurney, K., Prescott, T.J., & Redgrave, P. (1998), The basal ganglia viewed as an action selection device, The Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, pp1033-1038.
- Hartley, S.J., Prescott, T.J. & Nicolson, R. (1998), Experimental and connectionist perspectives on semantic memory development, Proceedings of Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Wisconsin, USA, pp. 478-48.
- Crowe, A., Porrill, J., & Prescott, T. J. (1998), Kinematic coordination of reach and balance, Journal of Motor Behavior, 30:217–233.
1997
- Prescott, T. J. & Ibbotson, C. (1997), A robot trace-maker: modelling the fossil evidence of early invertebrate behavior, Artificial Life, 3:289-306.
1996
- Prescott, T. J. (1996), Spatial representation for navigation in animats, Adaptive Behavior, 4: 85-123.
1994
- Prescott, T. J. (1994), Spatial learning and representation in animats, From Animals to Animats 3: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Meyer, J-A., Roitblat, H.L., Wilson, S.W. (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 164–173.
1993
- Prescott, T.J. and Mayhew, J.E.W. (1993), Building long-range cognitive maps using local landmarks, From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Meyer, J-A., Roitblat, H.L., Wilson, S.W. (eds.), MIT Press: Cambridge MA, pp. 233–242.
1992
- Prescott, T.J. and Mayhew, J.E.W. (1992), Obstacle avoidance through reinforcement learning, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, Moody, J.E., Hanson, S.J., and Lippmann, R.P. (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann: New York, pp. 523–530.
Other work
- Gurney KN, Prescott AJ, Redgrave P (2006), A Theoretical Treatment of Basal Banglia Function, Nova Science Pub Inc., (Bezard E, ed).
- Prescott, T. J. Gurney, K. Gonzalez, F. M., Humphries, M. & Redgrave, P. (2003), Action selection in a robot model of the basal ganglia: The role of simulated dopamine, Society for Neuroscience, Program No. 915.5.
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J. & Gurney, K. (2003), Selection and the basal ganglia: A role for dopamine, Basal Ganglia VI,, Graybiel, A.M and DeLong, M. (Eds.). New York: Kluwer.
- Prescott, T. J., Gurney, K., and Redgrave, P. (2003), Basal Ganglia, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. A. Arbib (Ed.), 2nd Edition .
- Hartley, S.J., Prescott, T.J. & Nicolson, R. (1999), Feature Distributions and Experimental Evaluation in a Connectionist Model of Semantic Memory, Connectionist models in Cognitive Neuroscience, G. Humphreys, D, Heinke, A.Olsen (Eds). London: Springer-Verlag. p. 158-167.
- Gurney, K., Redgrave, P. & Prescott, T.J. (1998), Analysis and simulation of a model of intrinsic processing in the basal ganglia, Technical Report AIVRU131, The University of Sheffield.
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J., & Gurney, K. (1997), The basal ganglia: a neural architecture for conflict resolution, Soc Neurosci Abstr, 23:192.
- Prescott, T.J. (1993), Explorations in reinforcement and model-based learning, Phd thesis, University of Sheffield.
- Prescott, T.J. and Mayhew, J.E.W. (1992), Adaptive local navigation, Active Vision, Blake, A. and Yuille, A. (eds.), MIT Press: Cambridge MA. p 203-215.
Other links
Forthcoming work
- Ben Mitchinson, Tak-Shing Chan, Jon Chambers, Martin Pearson, Mark Humphries, Charles Fox, Kevin Gurney, Tony J. Prescott (2009), BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation, Advanced Engineering Informatics, in press.
Peer-reviewed print articles
2009
- Fox, C., Humphries, M., Mitchinson, B., Kiss, T,; Somogyvari, Z. & Prescott, T. (2009), Technical integration of hippocampus, basal ganglia and physical models for spatial navigation , Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 3:6.
- Robyn Anne Grant, Ben Mitchinson, Charles W. Fox, and Tony J. Prescott (2009), Active touch sensing in the rat: Anticipatory and regulatory control of whisker movements during surface exploration, J Neurophysiol, 101:862-874.
2008
- Mitchinson B., Arabzadeh E., Diamond M. E., Prescott T. J. (2008), Spike-timing in primary sensory neurons: A model of somatosensory transduction in the rat, Biological Cybernetics, 98(3):185-194.
2007
- Montes-Gonzalez, F. M., Prescott, T. J., Negrete-Martinez, J. (2007), Minimizing human intervention in the development of basal ganglia inspired robot control, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 4(3): 101-109.
- Prescott, T. J., Bryson, J. J., Seth, A. (2007), Introduction to the theme issue on modelling natural action selection, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 36291485):1521-1529.
- Humphries, M. D., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. J. (2007), Is there a brainstem substrate for action selection?, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362(1485):1627-1639.
- Mitchinson B., Martin C.J., Grant R.A., Prescott T.J. (2007), Feedback control in active sensing: rat exploratory whisking is modulated by environmental contact, Royal Society Proceedings B, 274(1613).
- Prescott, T. J. (2007), Forced moves or good tricks in design space? Landmarks in the evolution of neural mechanisms for action selection, Adaptive Behavior, 15: 9-31.
- Prescott, T . J. & Humphries, M. D. (2007), Who dominates who in the dark basements of the brain? Commentary on Merker, B. “Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30:104-105.
- Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson and Tony J. Prescott (2007), Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on the Rat Whisker Sensory System, Adaptive Behavior, 15:223-240.
2006
- Prescott, T. J., Montes-Gonzalez, F., Gurney, K., Humphries, M. D. and Redgrave, P. (2006), A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing, Neural Networks, 19:31-61.
- Humphries, M. D., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. J. (2006), The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273:503-511.
- Humphries, M. D. & Prescott, T. J. (2006), Distributed action selection by a brainstem neural substrate: An embodied evaluation, From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, pp. 199-210, Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
- Mitchinson, B. Pearson, M., Melhuish, C., and Prescott, T.J. (2006), A model of sensorimotor co-ordination in the rat whisker system, From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4095). Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 77-88.
- Prescott, T. J., Newton, L. D., Mir, N. U., and Parks, R. W. (2006), A new dissimilarity measure for finding semantic structure in category fluency data with implications for understanding memory organization in schizophrenia, Neuropsychology, 20:685-99.
2005
- Humphries, M. D., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. J. (2005), Is there an integrative center in the vertebrate brain-stem? A robotic evaluation of a model of the reticular formation viewed as an action selection device, Adaptive Behaviour, 13:97-113.
- Pearson, M. J., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. G., Prescott, T. J. (2005), A biomimetic haptic sensor, Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2:335-343.
- Chambers, J. M., Gurney, K., Humphries, M. & Prescott, T. (2005), Mechanisms of choice in the primate brain: a quick look at positive feedback, Modelling Natural Action Selection, J. J. Bryson, T. J. Prescott & A. Seth, pp. 45-52, AISB Press..
- Humphries, M., Gurney, K. & Prescott, T. (2005), Action selection in a macroscopic model of the brainstem reticular formation, Modelling Natural Action Selection, J. J. Bryson, T. J. Prescott & A. Seth, pp. 61-68, AISB Press.
- Pearson MJ, Gilhespy I, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche B, Pipe AG, Prescott TJ (2005), A Biologically inspired haptic sensor array for use in mobile robotic vehicles, Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Imperial College, London.
2004
- Gurney, K., Humphries, M., Wood, R., Prescott, T.J. & Redgrave, P. (2004), Testing computational hypotheses of brain systems function: a case study with the basal ganglia, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 15:263-290. [Code]
- Gurney, K., Prescott, T.J., Wickens, J. R. & Redgrave, P. (2004), Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes, Trends in Neurosciences, 27:453-459.
- Mitchinson, B. M., Gurney, K. N., Redgrave, P., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A. G., Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I. & Prescott, T. J. (2004), Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus-complex, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271:2509-2516.
2003
- J. Eiser, J. R., Fazio, R. H., Stafford, T. & Prescott, T. J. (2003), Connectionist simulation of attitude learning: Asymmetries in the acquisition of positive and negative evaluations, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29:1221-1235.
- Crowe, S. J. and T. J. Prescott (2003), Continuity and Change in the Development of Category Structure: Insights from the Semantic Fluency Task, International Journal of Behavioural Development, 27: 467-479.
- Humphries, M. D., Prescott, T. J. & Gurney, K. N. (2003), The interaction of recurrent axon collateral networks in the basal ganglia, Artifical Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing, O. Kaynak, E. Alpaydin, E. Oja & L. Xu (Eds.), ICANN/ICONIP 2003 (LNCS 2714) pp. 797-804, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Girard B, Cuzin V, Guillot A, Gurney KN, Prescott TJ (2003), Comparison of a “winner-takes-all” and a vertebrate inspired model of action selection embedded in a Lego Mindstorms robot , Journal of Integrative Neuroscience , 2:179-200.
2002
- Girard, B., Cuzin, V., Guillot, A., Gurney, K., and Prescott, T.J. (2002), Comparing a brain-inspired robot action selection mechanism with winner-takes-all, From Animals to Animats 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 75–84.
- Prescott, T. J., Gurney, K., Montes-Gonzalez, F., Humphries, M. and Redgrave, P. (2002), The robot basal ganglia: Action selection by an embedded model of the basal ganglia, Basal Ganglia VII, L. F. B. Nicholson and R. Faulls (Eds.) New York: Plenum Press.
2001
- Gurney, K., Redgrave, P. & Prescott, T.J. (2001b), A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour, Biological Cybernetics, 84:411-423.
- Gurney, K., Redgrave, P. & Prescott, T.J. (2001a), A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia I. A new functional anatomy, Biological Cybernetics, 84:401-410.
2000
- Montes Gonzalez, F. Prescott, T.J., Gurney, K. Humphries, M., & Redgrave, P. (2000), An embodied model of action selection mechanisms in the vertebrate brain, From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, J-A. Meyer, A. Berthoz, D. Floreano, H. Roitblat, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
1999
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J. & Gurney, K. (1999), The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?, Neuroscience, 89:1009-1023.
- Prescott, T.J., Redgrave, P., & Gurney, K. (1999), Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates, Adaptive Behavior, 7:99-127.
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J. & Gurney, K. (1999), Is the short latency dopamine burst too short to signal reinforcement error?, Trends in Neurosciences, 22:146-151.
1998
- Gurney, K., Prescott, T.J., & Redgrave, P. (1998), The basal ganglia viewed as an action selection device, The Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, pp1033-1038.
- Hartley, S.J., Prescott, T.J. & Nicolson, R. (1998), Experimental and connectionist perspectives on semantic memory development, Proceedings of Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Wisconsin, USA, pp. 478-48.
- Crowe, A., Porrill, J., & Prescott, T. J. (1998), Kinematic coordination of reach and balance, Journal of Motor Behavior, 30:217–233.
1997
- Prescott, T. J. & Ibbotson, C. (1997), A robot trace-maker: modelling the fossil evidence of early invertebrate behavior, Artificial Life, 3:289-306.
1996
- Prescott, T. J. (1996), Spatial representation for navigation in animats, Adaptive Behavior, 4: 85-123.
1994
- Prescott, T. J. (1994), Spatial learning and representation in animats, From Animals to Animats 3: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Meyer, J-A., Roitblat, H.L., Wilson, S.W. (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 164–173.
1993
- Prescott, T.J. and Mayhew, J.E.W. (1993), Building long-range cognitive maps using local landmarks, From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Meyer, J-A., Roitblat, H.L., Wilson, S.W. (eds.), MIT Press: Cambridge MA, pp. 233–242.
1992
- Prescott, T.J. and Mayhew, J.E.W. (1992), Obstacle avoidance through reinforcement learning, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, Moody, J.E., Hanson, S.J., and Lippmann, R.P. (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann: New York, pp. 523–530.
Other work
- Gurney KN, Prescott AJ, Redgrave P (2006), A Theoretical Treatment of Basal Banglia Function, Nova Science Pub Inc., (Bezard E, ed).
- Prescott, T. J. Gurney, K. Gonzalez, F. M., Humphries, M. & Redgrave, P. (2003), Action selection in a robot model of the basal ganglia: The role of simulated dopamine, Society for Neuroscience, Program No. 915.5.
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J. & Gurney, K. (2003), Selection and the basal ganglia: A role for dopamine, Basal Ganglia VI,, Graybiel, A.M and DeLong, M. (Eds.). New York: Kluwer.
- Prescott, T. J., Gurney, K., and Redgrave, P. (2003), Basal Ganglia, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. A. Arbib (Ed.), 2nd Edition .
- Hartley, S.J., Prescott, T.J. & Nicolson, R. (1999), Feature Distributions and Experimental Evaluation in a Connectionist Model of Semantic Memory, Connectionist models in Cognitive Neuroscience, G. Humphreys, D, Heinke, A.Olsen (Eds). London: Springer-Verlag. p. 158-167.
- Gurney, K., Redgrave, P. & Prescott, T.J. (1998), Analysis and simulation of a model of intrinsic processing in the basal ganglia, Technical Report AIVRU131, The University of Sheffield.
- Redgrave, P., Prescott, T.J., & Gurney, K. (1997), The basal ganglia: a neural architecture for conflict resolution, Soc Neurosci Abstr, 23:192.
- Prescott, T.J. (1993), Explorations in reinforcement and model-based learning, Phd thesis, University of Sheffield.
- Prescott, T.J. and Mayhew, J.E.W. (1992), Adaptive local navigation, Active Vision, Blake, A. and Yuille, A. (eds.), MIT Press: Cambridge MA. p 203-215.