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The researchers found that when the woman without limbs watched videos of tasks being performed using body parts that she did not have, the sensory-motor areas of her brain were still strongly engaged.
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In a paper, published online by Cerebral Cortex, USC researchers found that empathy between two people who can relate to each other more directly relies primarily on the intuitive, sensory-motor parts of the brain.
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In fact, so intrigued was I by the sensory-motor system that I returned to Harvard to work with psychologist B.F. Skinner.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Will Machines Take Over the World? The Scientific Turning Point 2010
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I get how sensory-motor amnesia affect kinesthesia and movement, but fatigue seems like another level.
Dar Kush Steven Barnes 2010
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In fact, so intrigued was I by the sensory-motor system that I returned to Harvard to work with psychologist B.F. Skinner.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Will Machines Take Over the World? The Scientific Turning Point 2010
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However by taking the view of embodied cognition summarised here, we may define embodied creative search, where sensory-motor faculties are used to navigate a geometric space, in direct metaphor to a search through a physical space.
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Theories of embodied cognition however take the view that concepts are inherently perceptual; that concepts arise from recurrent states in sensory-motor systems, which in turn form the building blocks of higher level abstract thought.
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However by taking the view of embodied cognition summarised here, we may define embodied creative search, where sensory-motor faculties are used to navigate a geometric space, in direct metaphor to a search through a physical space.
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Theories of embodied cognition however take the view that concepts are inherently perceptual; that concepts arise from recurrent states in sensory-motor systems, which in turn form the building blocks of higher level abstract thought.
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Babies deprived of this movement, as when a high-risk woman is confined to bed, may lag behind in sensory-motor development.
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