Main papers

2009

Thornton, C. (2009). Hierarchical markov modeling for generative music. In G. Scavone, V. Verfaille and A.D. Silva (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference ICMC-09 (pp. 49-52). Montreal, Canada: The International Computer Music Association. pdf.
Thornton, C. (2009). Representation recovers information. Cognitive Science, 33, No. 8 (pp. 1-30). pdf.
Thornton, C. (2009). Self-redundancy in music. In J. McCormack, M. D'Inverno and M. Boden (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2009 Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach. IBFI, Schloss Dagstuhl (www.dagstuhl.de). pdf.
2008
Thornton, C. (2008). Analogy as exploration. Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity. (www.christhornton.eu/papers/analogy-as-exploration.pdf) pdf.
Thornton, C. (2008). Discrete measurement of sensory information using bayesian networks. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2027). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (www.christhornton.eu/papers/sensory-inf-cogsci-abstract.pd f) pdf.
2007
Thornton, C. (2007). How thinking inside the box can become thinking outside the box. Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity. pdf.
2006
Thornton, C. (2006). Principled exploitation of behavioural coupling. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 18, No. 3 (pp. 309-330). pdf.
2003
Thornton, C. (2003). Indirect sensing through abstractive learning. Intelligent Data Analysis, 7, No. 3 (pp. 255-266). pdf.
Thornton, C. (2003). Quantitative abstraction theory. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISBJ), 1, No. 3. pdf.
2002
Thornton, C. (2002). Creativity and runaway learning. In T. Dartnall (Ed.), Creativity, Cognition and Knowledge (pp. 239-250). London: Praeger. pdf.
1999
Thornton, C. (1999). What do constructive learners really learn?. Artificial Intelligence Review, 13, No. 4 (pp. 249-257). pdf.
1998
Thornton, C. (1998). The building block fallacy. Complexity International, 4. pdf.
Thornton, C. and Clark, A. (1998). Reading the generalizer's mind. Behaviour and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press. pdf.
1997
Thornton, C. (1997). Separability is a learner's best friend. In J.A. Bullinaria, D.W. Glasspool and G. Houghton (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Connectionist Representations (pp. 40-47). London: Springer-Verlag. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1997). Brave mobots use representation: emergence of representation in fight-or-flight learning. Minds and Machines, 7, No. 475-494. pdf.
Thornton, C. and Clark, A. (1997). Relational learning re-examined. Behaviour and Brain Sciences, 20 (pp. 83-90). Cambridge University Press. pdf.
Clark, A. and Thornton, C. (1997). Trading spaces: computation, representation and the limits of uninformed learning. Behaviour and Brain Sciences, 20 (pp. 57-90). Cambridge University Press. pdf.
1996
Thornton, C. (1996). No-strings representationalism. AISB Quarterly, No. 96 (pp. 28-31). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1996). Parity: the problem that won't go away. In G. McCalla (Ed.), Proceeding of AI-96 (Toronto, Canada) (pp. 362-374). Springer. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1996). Re-presenting representation. In D.M. Peterson (Ed.), Forms of Representation: An Interdisciplinary Theme for Cognitive Science (pp. 152-162). Intellect. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1996). Why concept learning is a good idea. In A. CLark and P. Millican (Eds.), Connectionism, Concepts, And Folk Psychology (The Legacy of Alan Turing). Vol. II (pp. 181-194). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pdf.
1995
Thornton, C. (1995). Measuring the difficulty of specific learning problems. Connection Science, 7, No. 1 (pp. 81-92). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1995). Compression, dilation and the redescriptive role of explicitation. In J. Hoc (Ed.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science (pp. 19-30). pdf.
Stone, J. and Thornton, C. (1995). Can artificial neural networks discover useful regularities?. Proceedings of ICANN-95. Cambridge. pdf.
1994
Thornton, C. (1994). Adaptation of obstacle-avoidance in the face of emerging environmental dynamics. Proceedings of AIRTC-94. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1994). Connectionism, creativity and guided walks. In T. Dartnall (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence and Creativity (pp. 211-215). Kluwer Academic Publishers. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1994). Emergent representation/green cognition. Proceedings of DRABC-94: On the Role of Dynamics and Representation in Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (pp. 192-193). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1994). Unsupervised learning with the soft-means algorithm. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks. Vol. 4 (pp. 200-205). San Diego. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1994). Statistical biases in backpropagation learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 709-712). Sorrento, Italy. pdf.
1993
Thornton, C. (1993). Representational redescription for sea-slugs. In T. Dartnall, S. Kim and F. Sudweeks (Eds.), AAAI Technical Report. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1993). Computer doodles using simulated gravitational fields. International Symposium on Creativity and Cognition - Conference Pre-prints, Loughborough. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1993). Statistical factors in behaviour learning. Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1993). A definition of learner uncertainty. Proceedings of Information Technology and Programming (pp. 193-204). Sofia, Bulgaria. pdf.
1992
Thornton, C. (1992). The howl effect in dynamic-network learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 211-214). Brighton. pdf.
1991
Thornton, C. (1991). An introduction to connectionist computing. Computer Aided Design, 23, No. 8 (pp. 530-538). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1991). Why connectionist learning algorithms need to be more creative. Conference Preprints for the First Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Reasoning and Creativity. Brisbane, Australia: (Also CSRP 218, Cognitive Science Research Reports, University of Sussex). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1991). Neural networks versus artificial intelligence: the phoney war. Proceedings of the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology and Applications (AITA '91) (pp. 1-15). Universiti Malaya. pdf.
1990
Thornton, C. (1990). The kink representation for exclusive-or. Proceedings of the International Neural Network Conference (p. 982). Kluwer Academic. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1990). The structure of extensions. Philosophy and the Computer. Westview Press. pdf.
1989
Thornton, C. (1989). Analogical inference as generalised inductive inference. In K. Jantke (Ed.), Analogical and Inductive Inference. (Proceedings of AII'89) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 254-263). Springer-Verlag. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1989). The factorial productivity of mark-raising generalization. In I. Plander (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control Systems of Robots (pp. 141-150). Amsterdam (North-Holland): Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1989). Defining higher-order classes. Proceedings of the Second Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1989). The emergence of higher levels of description. Proceedings of the Second Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (pp. 169-187). Dublin City University. pdf.
Thornton, C. (1989). Learning mechanisms which construct neighbourhood representations. Connection Science, 1, No. 1 (pp. 69-85). pdf.
1988
Thornton, C. (1988). Links between content and information-content. Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Munich, 1-5 August). Pitman (also available as CSRP 109, School of Cognitive Sciences, University of Sussex, 1988). pdf.
Thornton, C. (1988). A computational model for the data compression metaphor. In T. O'Shea and V. Sgurev (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference of AI Methodology Systems Applications (AIMSA-88, Varna, Bulgaria, 20-23 September). Elsevier Science Publishers (also available as CSRP 110, School of Cognitive Sciences, University of Sussex, 1988). pdf.
1987
Thornton, C. (1987). Hypercuboid-formation behaviour of two learning algorithms. Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 301-303). Los Altos: Morgan Kaufman..
1986
Thornton, C. (1986). Design principle for a graphical discourse language. Proceedings of the WWDU conference (Stockholm) (pp. 937-939..