Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and processing. This is the embodiment hypothesis. This paper presents a theoretical review of this work that is intended to be useful for researchers in the neurosciences and neuropsychology. Beginning with a historical perspective, ...

There is growing evidence that even the most abstract capacities of human cognition are not entirely amodal and disembodied. The present study presents two empirical studies which aim to demonstrate that relational reasoning is grounded in our sensory-motor experience. Experiment 1 shows that the affordances of tool-like objects have an effect on comparing functional relations. Experiment 2 mak...

We have been researching methods developed for designing behaviors and a directed cyclic graph for an optimized behavior selection mechanism for autonomous mobile robots to use in unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) performing swarm based automatic target recognition. Our work is based on managing level of behavior, where behavior algorithms that are initially developed using evolutionary computi...

while much is known about the processes underlying the embodiment of non-corporeal objects, less research has been conducted to explore the mechanisms that prevent embodiment. The current study investigates the effect of violation of the human body template on embodiment of fake limbs by appearing to encroach the fake limb with a solid object. Encroachment of the limb disrupted embodiment, but ...

The cognitive significance of representation continues to be the subject of some debate. Some see representation as an integral part of cognition. Others see it as unnecessary or counter-productive, although there is often agreement that representation must be required at the level of reasoning, since by definition this operates on representational tokens. But, using information theory within t...

By means of so-called virtual or shadow prices, short-run factor demands, short-run marginal costs, etc. can be derived from any long-run cost function. The traditional approach (short-run/restricted/conditional/variable cost functions) is criticized, and it is also shown that technological change, scale e!ects, etc. can be added to any cost function by means of disembodied factor-augmenting e$...

Physical education teacher trainees are the main source of physical teachers in China, and training mode educational philosophy colleges universities affect personal ability future teachers. Influenced by "disembodied education" model, teaching regarded as a "higher-level process" that promotes mental development is not related to "lower-level processes" such experience, bodily sensation sensor...

Most growth models assume capital is homogeneous. This contradicts intuition and empirical evidence that the majority of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Classic papers from the late 1950’s and 1960’s show that non-optimization models display the same asymptotic growth rates whether technology is embodied (vintage capital) or disembodied. This paper uses new numerical optimization t...

Most growth models assume capital is homogeneous with regard to technology. This contradicts intuition and empirical evidence that the majority of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Berger (2001) showed that neoclassical vintage capital (embodied technology) and non-vintage capital (disembodied technology) models have different convergence rates, although identical steady state growth...

We have set out to identify phenomenological correlates of cerebral functional architecture within Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) hallucinations by looking for associations between specific hallucination categories. Thirty-four CBS patients were examined with a structured interview/questionnaire to establish the presence of 28 different pathological visual experiences. Associations between categ...