The Editors Caroline Lyon is Visiting Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. Her first degree was in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, then a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research and publications cover a range of speech and language issues, including work on the evolution of language, speech recognition, applications of neural networks and textual analysis.

Chrystopher Nehaniv is Research Professor of Mathematical and Evolutionary Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. He studied Linguistics, Biology, Cognitive Science, and Mathematics at the University of Michigan, then gaining a PhD in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Director of the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Network on Evolvability in Biological and Software Systems, and Associate Editor of BioSystems: Journal of Biological and Information Processing Sciences and Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems . Among 200 scientific publications are the edited books Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (MIT Press, 2002) and Computation for Metaphor, Analogy and Agents (Springer, 1999).

Angelo Cangelosi is Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Cognition at the University of Plymouth. He has a PhD in Cognitive Science and Psychology from the University of Genoa. His main research interest is cognitive modelling using artificial life and cognitive robotics. Among more than 100 scientific publications are the edited books Simulating the Evolution of Language (Springer, 2002) and Modelling language, cognition and action (World Scientific, 2005).

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