Embodied meaning and negative priming

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 644-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur M. Glenberg ◽  
David A. Robertson ◽  
Michael P. Kaschak ◽  
Alan J. Malter
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Standard Models

Standard models of cognition are built from abstract, amodal, arbitrary symbols, and the meanings of those symbols are given solely by their interrelations. The target article (Glenberg 1997t) argues that these models must be inadequate because meaning cannot arise from relations among abstract symbols. For cognitive representations to be meaningful they must, at the least, be grounded; but abstract symbols are difficult, if not impossible, to ground. As an alternative, the target article developed a framework in which representations are grounded in perception and action, and hence are embodied. Recent work (Glenberg & Robertson 1999; 2000; Glenberg & Kaschak 2002; Kaschak & Glenberg 2000) extends this framework to language.

How specific and common is common coding?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 903-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries F. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Direct Perception ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Common Coding ◽  
Event Code ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Common ◽  
Action Coupling

This commentary addresses three points. First, it is argued that the common coding principles, as developed in the target article, may supplement rather than replace stage views of human information processing. Second, the issue of the properties of an event code is briefly discussed. It is concluded that much remains to be specified so as to allow critical tests. Finally, the question of the limits of common coding is raised. It may be particularly relevant to direct perception and action coupling but less useful for the analysis of cognitive skills.

Triadic bodily mimesis is the difference

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 720-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev ◽  
Tomas Persson ◽  
Peter Gärdenfors
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Public Language ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Motor Experience ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
The Difference

We find that the nature and origin of the proposed “dialogical cognitive representations” in the target article is not sufficiently clear. Our proposal is that (triadic) bodily mimesis and in particular mimetic schemas – prelinguistic representational, intersubjective structures, emerging through imitation but subsequently interiorized – can provide the necessary link between private sensory-motor experience and public language. In particular, we argue that shared intentionality requires triadic mimesis.

Acting out our sensory experience

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1011-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kevin O'Regan ◽  
Alva Noë
Keyword(s):  
Perception And Action ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Explanatory Gap ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Internal Representations ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Explanatory Gap ◽  
The Brain

The most important clarification we bring in our reply to commentators concerns the problem of the “explanatory gap”: that is, the gulf that separates physical processes in the brain from the experienced quality of sensations. By adding two concepts (bodiliness and grabbiness) that were not stressed in the target article, we strengthen our claim and clarify why we think we have solved the explanatory gap problem, – not by dismissing qualia, but, on the contrary, by explaining why sensations have a “feel” and why “feels” feel the way they do. We additionally clarify our views on: internal representations (we claim internal representations cannot explain why sensation has a feel), on behaviorism (we are not behaviorists), on perception and action (we believe there can be perception without action), and on the brain (we believe the brain does do something important in perception).

scholarly journals Perception versus action: The computations may be the same but the direction of fit differs

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Shea
Keyword(s):  
Perception And Action ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Corresponding States ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Direction Of Fit ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Directions Of Fit

AbstractAlthough predictive coding may offer a computational principle that unifies perception and action, states with different directions of fit are involved (with indicative and imperative contents, respectively). Predictive states are adjusted to fit the world in the course of perception, but in the case of action, the corresponding states act as a fixed target towards which the agent adjusts the world. This well-recognised distinction helps side-step some problems discussed in the target article.

scholarly journals Has Creativity Research Become a Trivial Pursuit?

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Todd Lubart ◽  
Xavier Caroff
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Trivial Pursuit ◽  
Visual Graphic

AbstractBased on Glăveanu’s target article, issues raised about the psychometric approach to creativity research are examined. Criticisms of divergent thinking tests, such as the unusual uses of an object test, are examined. Arguments supporting the theoretical and practical utility of divergent thinking tests are presented. It is furthermore suggested that tests are best conceived and used in contextualized ways. The example of measures of divergent thinking which were designed for managers is presented. Finally, the psychometric approach encompasses many aspects of creativity beyond divergent thinking, as illustrated by recent work on the evaluation of creative potential (the EPoC battery). In the EPoC assessment, both divergent-exploratory thinking and convergent-integrative thinking are measured in a range of contextual domains, such as the visual-graphic, verballiterary, social problem solving ones. This work contrasts with the simplistic, and restrictive view of the unusual uses of an object test as the epitome of the psychometric approach to creativity.

TEC: Integrated view of perception and action or framework for response selection?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 899-900
Author(s):  
Robert W. Proctor ◽  
Kim-Phuong L. Vu
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Classical Information ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Theory Of Event Coding

The Theory of Event Coding (TEC) presented in Hommel et al.'s target article provides a useful heuristic framework for stimulating research. Although the authors present TEC as providing a more integrated view of perception and action than classical information processing, TEC is restricted to the stage often called response selection and shares many features with existing theories.

Cognitive representations and the predictive brain depend heavily on the environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Fiedler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Adaptive Cognition ◽  
Exclusive Focus

Abstract In their scholarly target article, Gilead et al. explain how abstract mental representations and the predictive brain enable prospection and time-traveling. However, their exclusive focus on intrapsychic capacities misses an important point, namely, the degree to which mind and brain are tuned by the environment. This neglected aspect of adaptive cognition is discussed and illustrated from a cognitive-ecological perspective.

Whenever next: Hierarchical timing of perception and action

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linus Holm ◽  
Guy Madison
Keyword(s):  
Perception And Action ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Motor Timing ◽  
Hierarchical Framework ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Hierarchical Timing ◽  
Far Future

AbstractThe target article focuses on the predictive coding of “what” and “where” something happened and the “where” and “what” response to make. We extend that scope by addressing the “when” aspect of perception and action. Successful interaction with the environment requires predictions of everything from millisecond-accurate motor timing to far future events. The hierarchical framework seems appropriate for timing.

scholarly journals Merging familiar and new senses to perceive and act in space

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (S1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Marko Nardini
Keyword(s):  
Perception And Action ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Auditory Cues ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Sensory Signals ◽  
3D Space ◽  
Multiple Frames ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Two Populations ◽  
Do So

AbstractOur experience of the world seems to unfold seamlessly in a unitary 3D space. For this to be possible, the brain has to merge many disparate cognitive representations and sensory inputs. How does it do so? I discuss work on two key combination problems: coordinating multiple frames of reference (e.g. egocentric and allocentric), and coordinating multiple sensory signals (e.g. visual and proprioceptive). I focus on two populations whose spatial processing we can observe at a crucial stage of being configured and optimised: children, whose spatial abilities are still developing significantly, and naïve adults learning new spatial skills, such as sensing distance using auditory cues. The work uses a model-based approach to compare participants’ behaviour with the predictions of alternative information processing models. This lets us see when and how—during development, and with experience—the perceptual-cognitive computations underpinning our experiences in space change. I discuss progress on understanding the limits of effective spatial computation for perception and action, and how lessons from the developing spatial cognitive system can inform approaches to augmenting human abilities with new sensory signals provided by technology.

scholarly journals Personality, self-control, and welfare-tradeoff ratios in revenge and forgiveness

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Balliet ◽  
Tila M. Pronk
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Concern For Others

AbstractWe address how trait self-control and trait concern for others relate to the concepts of monitored and intrinsic Welfare Tradeoff Ratios (WTRs), respectively, and how recent work on personality, revenge, and forgiveness are informed by the adaptationist perspective proposed in the target article. We also discuss how the proposed adaptationist perspective provides clues to some previously puzzling findings on revenge.

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