TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1609
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1609/
A1  - Harnad, Stevan
TI  - Beyond Object Constancy
Y1  - 1998///
N2  - It is surely not irrelevant that such a large proportion of the brain is devoted to the body and to
sensorimotor processing (Jeannerod 1994, Kaas 1995, Zhang et al. 1997). That should already serve
to alert us that embodiment is likely to be an important factor in cognition. 

Add to that the well-rehearsed advantages of letting the world serve as its own model (Steels &
Brooks 1995), Gibson's (1979) influential findings on the role of sensorimotor interaction in the
detection of invariants, and perhaps also my own writing on the symbol grounding problem (Harnad
1990, 1996) and there would appear to be a good deal of support for Pfeifer's (1998) position.
AV  - public
KW  - object constancy
KW  -  sensorimotor processing
KW  -  cognition
ER  -

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