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The majority of research on human perception and action examines
sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often
considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a
perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual
representation, as are the positions and actions (potential or
ongoing) of other active beings. It is this self-in-world
representation that we call embodiment. Increasingly, research
demonstrates that embodiment is fundamental to both executing and
understanding spatially and interpersonally directed action. It has
been theorized to play a role in reaching and grasping, locomotion
and navigation, infant imitation, spatial and social perspective
taking, and neurological dysfunctions as diverse as phantom limb
pain and autism. Few formal ideas have been put forward, however,
to describe how selfrepresentation functions at a mechanistic level
and what neural structures support those functions. This volume
reports on the 2006 Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, which brought
together the contributions to these issues from a group of
researchers who span perspectives of behavioral science,
neuroscience, developmental psychology and computation. Together
they share their findings, ideas, aspirations, and concerns.
Sensation & Perception, International Fifth Edition introduces
students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and
perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings
of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective
domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental
questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to
those questions can have on medical and societal issues.
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