Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 29, 2025
Abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, cold, salinity and flooding significantly impact plant growth, development and productivity. As the planet has warmed, these abiotic stresses have increased in frequency and intensity, affecting the global food...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Sep 16, 2024
Many recent artificial intelligence (AI) systems take inspiration from biological episodic memory. Here, we ask how these 'episodic-inspired' AI systems might inform our understanding of biological episodic memory. We discuss work showing that these ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Sep 16, 2024
Episodic memories are experienced as belonging to a self that persists in time. We review evidence concerning the nature of human episodic memory and of the sense of self and how these emerge during development, proposing that the younger child exper...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Aug 19, 2024
This theme issue brings together researchers from diverse fields to assess the current status and future prospects of embodied cognition in the age of generative artificial intelligence. In this introduction, we first clarify our view of embodiment a...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Aug 19, 2024
Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative artificial intelligence (AI). In what follows we ask how best to unde...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 6, 2024
Automated sensors have potential to standardize and expand the monitoring of insects across the globe. As one of the most scalable and fastest developing sensor technologies, we describe a framework for automated, image-based monitoring of nocturnal ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 6, 2024
Night-time light can have profound ecological effects, even when the source is natural moonlight. The impacts of light can, however, vary substantially by taxon, habitat and geographical region. We used a custom machine learning model built with the ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jan 22, 2024
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, the need for new norms is urgent. However, AI evolves at a much faster pace than the characteristic time of norm formation, posing an unprecedented challenge to our socie...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 29, 2023
From out-competing grandmasters in chess to informing high-stakes healthcare decisions, emerging methods from artificial intelligence are increasingly capable of making complex and strategic decisions in diverse, high-dimensional and uncertain situat...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Mar 6, 2023
In face-to-face interactions, parties rapidly react and adapt to each other's words, movements and expressions. Any science of face-to-face interaction must develop approaches to hypothesize and rigorously test mechanisms that explain such interdepen...