Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

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 lik...

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Other Authors: Bishop, John Mark. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Martin, Andrew Owen. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 15
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9
Table of Contents:
  • The Explanatory Status of the Sensorimotor Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness, and its Appeal to Cognition
  • Heideggerian Credentials? O’Regan’s Sensorimotor Approach to Perception and Robots that Feel
  • The Phenomenology of Sensorimotor Understanding
  • How Enactive is the Dynamic Sensorimotor Account of Raw Feel?: Discussing some Insights from Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • Experience and consciousness: Concepts from the outside in
  • Sensorimotor knowledge and the radical alternative
  • The Problem of Invisible Content
  • Beyond Vision: extending the scope of a sensorimotor account of perception
  • From a Sensorimotor to a Sensorimotor++ Account of Embodied Conceptual Cognition
  • Conscious Sensation, Conscious Perception and Sensorimotor Theories of Consciousness
  • Basic Pretending as Sensorimotor Engagement? Lessons from Sensorimotor Theory for the Debate on Pretence
  • Investigating Sensorimotor Contingencies in the Enactive Interface
  • Non-Representational Interaction Design
  • Minimally Cognitive Robotics: Body Schema, Forward Models, and Sensorimotor Contingencies in a Quadruped Machine
  • Human language and sensorimotor contingency.