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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.

    Human brains wired to empathize, study finds 2011

  • 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.

    Human brains wired to empathize, study finds 2011

  • 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

  • I get how sensory-motor amnesia affect kinesthesia and movement, but fatigue seems like another level.

    Dar Kush Steven Barnes 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Questions of creativity « Alex McLean 2009

  • 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.

    July « 2009 « Alex McLean 2009

  • 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.

    July « 2009 « Alex McLean 2009

  • 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.

    Questions of creativity « Alex McLean 2009

  • Babies deprived of this movement, as when a high-risk woman is confined to bed, may lag behind in sensory-motor development.

    Special Issue: How Kids Grow Do You Hear What I Hear? 2008

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