Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but
there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent …

Creative thinking is arguably the pinnacle of cerebral functionality. Like no other mental
faculty, it has been omnipotent in transforming human civilizations. Probing the neural basis …

The close integration between visual and motor processes suggests that some visuomotor
transformations may proceed automatically and to an extent that permits observable effects …

Publisher Summary This chapter deals with a computational model of conscious and
conscious strategy discovery and advocates a triangulation strategy for attaining a better …

Humans and other animals are able not only to coordinate their actions with their current
sensorimotor state, but also to imagine, plan and act in view of the future, and to realize …

Strong AI—artificial intelligence that is in all respects at least as intelligent as humans—is
still out of reach. Current AI lacks common sense, that is, it is not able to infer, understand, or …

This paper explores the possibility of providing robots with an 'inner world'based on internal
simulation of perception rather than an explicit representational world model. First a series of …

One of the oldest questions in experimental psychology concerns the perception of
simultaneous events, particularly when input arrives through two different sensory channels …

Behavior may be controlled by reactive systems. In a reactive system the motor output is
exclusively driven by actual sensory input. An alternative solution to control behavior is …

It is becoming increasingly accepted that some form of anticipation is central to the
functioning of the brain. But modeling such anticipation has been in several forms …