Showing posts with label embodied cognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embodied cognition. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

How human breeding has changed dogs’ brains

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Hecht et al. have identified brain networks in dogs related to behavioral specializations roughly corresponding to sight hunting, scent hun...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Perception as controlled hallucination - predictive processing and the nature of conscious experience

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I've now read several times through a fascinating Edge.org conversation with philosopher Andy Clark. I suggest you read the piece, and ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2018

How is tech dividing us?

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Comments by David Autor during an interview by Nancy Scola: ...it's definitely the case that automation is raising the demand for skil...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Why it is impossible to tune a piano.

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Here is a 'random curious stuff' item, per the MindBlog description above.  I want to pass on this great explanation of why physics ...
Friday, April 22, 2016

How to attract others.

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Well, Duh...... Interesting, but talk about showing the obvious!.. from Vacharkulksemsuka et al. : Across two field studies of romantic attr...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Metaphorical conflict shapes social perception when spatial and ideological collide.

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Kleiman et al. do some intriguing experiments. I give you their abstract first, which doesn't actually say how they did the experiments...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Our eye movements are coupled to our heartbeats.

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A fascinating finding by Ohl et al. that the darting about of our eyes (saccades) during visual search is coupled to our heart rate (the R-...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Amazing…. Robots learn coordinated behavior from scratch.

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Der and Martius suggest that a novel plasticity rule can explain the development of sensorimotor intelligence, without having to postulate ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

The embodied cognition of your love life.

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MindBlog has done a number of posts on how physical changes in our bodies can influence social cognition (Holding a warm versus an iced cup ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Emotional foundations of cognitive control.

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Cognitive control (self control, self regulation) allows us to restrain from temptations of the present to focus on more long term goals. Em...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Brain correlates of "the good life" ??

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Lewis et al. offer another example of the class of experiments correlating the volume of a specific brain area with a specific behavior, i...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Fear detection depends on phase of our heartbeats.

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Here's a fascinating piece of work: Cognitions and emotions can be influenced by bodily physiology. Here, we investigated whether the...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Can body language be read more reliably by computers than by humans?

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This post continues the thread started in my March 20 post " A debate on what faces can tell us. " Enormous effort and expense has...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Bodily maps of emotions.

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Nummenmaa and collaborators , from several universities in Finland, propose that our emotions are represented in our somatosensory system as...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Signals from inside and outside our bodies in self consciousness

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Olaf Blanke (whose work on projecting ourselves outside our bodies I've mentioned previously ) and collaborators extend their studies ...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Naked bodies and mind perception.

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Numerous studies have found that viewing people’s bodies, as opposed to their faces, makes us judge them as less intelligent, ambitious, lik...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Do you use your head or follow your heart?

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Fetterman and Robsinon do a piece of work that tries to provide evidence of what we all commonly suppose: that where we physically locate o...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Oxytocin, gentle human touch, and social impression.

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Another bit of information from Leknes and collaborators , expanding on their work mentioned in a recent post : Interpersonal touch is fre...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Body posture modulates action perception.

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From Zimmermann et al : Recent studies have highlighted cognitive and neural similarities between planning and perceiving actions. Given th...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ambivalence and Body Movement

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Schneider et al. make interesting observations about circulation correlations between our thoughts and body movements. We sway more from s...