Welcome to Tony Prescott’s web pages!

**** New album. November 2025: Songs from the North Country ***

*** New Book. July 2024: The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence ***

I am a psychologist, computational neuroscientist, computer scientist and roboticist, or, for brevity, a cognitive scientist. I am especially interested in how the mind works and whether, when we make things like AIs and robots, they might also have minds and perhaps, one day, a sense of self. I am also interested in how these new technologies might change human lives and how we see ourselves.

This site hosts copies/versions of some of my previous blogs and open access or unpublished content along with intermittent new blog posts. Outside work, I enjoy, play and compose music (folk, rock. jazz, ambient) and engage in photography (travel, technology, street art) which will also feature on this site from time to time.

Contact email: info..at..tonyjprescott.com

Latest News

October 2024. New article. Understanding the sense of self through robotics. Published in Science Robotics. Free download from my co-authors web-page.

September 2024. Hey MiRo! We exhibited an integrated demonstration of a large language model with our animal-like robot, MiRo-e at the Sheffield Festival of Mind. See Hey MiRo website or watch the video below.

September 2024. I was a panel member for the Guardian Weekly Science podcast episode Will AI be a Good Companion? recorded at the British Science Festival. Listen here. Read this blog on why I think robots can boost our social connectedness.

July 2024. New Book! The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis). Buy from Routledge (£9.74 paperback). Buy from Amazon (£12.21 paperback, £8.96 Kindle). Find out more about the book here.

March 2024. Interviewed for the Research Records podcast series. Listen to hear the story of my journey in science and some of the music that has inspired me.

Older news available here.