creators_name: Harnad, Stevan type: confpaper datestamp: 2001-06-19 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:42 metadata_visibility: show title: Beyond Object Constancy ispublished: pub subjects: percep-cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: object constancy, sensorimotor processing, cognition abstract: 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. 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