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Contemporary sensorimotor theory
Abstract
This book analyzes the philosophical foundations of sensorimotor theory and discusses the most recent applications of sensorimotor theory to human computer interaction, child's play, virtual reality, robotics, and linguistics. Why does a circle look curved and not angular? Why does red not sound like a bell? Why, as I interact with the world, is there something it is like to be me? An analytic philosopher might suggest: ``if we ponder the concept of circle we find that it is the essence of a circle to be round''. However, where does this definition come from? Was it set in stone by the Gods, in other words by divine arbiters of circleness, redness and consciousness? Particularly, with regard to visual consciousness, a first attempt to explain why our conscious experience of the world appears as it does has been attributed to Kevin O'Regan and Alva Noe, who published their sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness in 2001. Starting with a chapter by Kevin O'Regan, Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory continues by presenting fifteen additional essays on as many developments achieved in recent years in this field. It provides readers with a critical review of the sensorimotor theory and in so doing introduces them to a radically new enactive approach in cognitive science.
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a brief introduction
pp.1-22
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_1pp.23-35
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_2pp.37-52
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_3pp.53-65
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_4discussing some insights from phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
pp.67-81
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_5concepts from the outside in
pp.83-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_6pp.105-116
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_7extending the scope of a sensorimotor account of perception
pp.127-136
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_9pp.137-158
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_10pp.159-174
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_11pp.175-187
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_12pp.189-200
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_13body schema, forward models, and sensorimotor contingencies in a quadruped machine
pp.209-233
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_15Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2014
Pages: 253
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-05106-2
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-05107-9
Full citation:
Martin Andrew O. (2014) Contemporary sensorimotor theory. Dordrecht, Springer.