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  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.
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commref: 'Pfeifer (1998) "Embodied Cognition: Dynamic and Information Theoretic Implications of Embodiment"'
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keywords: 'object constancy, sensorimotor processing, cognition'
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