Editorial: Re-Enacting Sensorimotor Experience for Cognition

Editorial: Re-Enacting Sensorimotor Experience for Cognition

Recent findings in cognitive science suggest that the human brain implements processes of simulation of sensorimotor activity (Pezzulo et al., 2013; Case et al., 2015; Wood et al., 2016). By re-enacting sensorimotor experience, the brain would be capable of anticipating the sensory consequences of intended motor actions. This would enable the individual to efficiently and fluidly interact with ...

Editorial: Dynamics of Sensorimotor Interactions in Embodied Cognition

The concept of incorporating the current situation and the body state within cognitive processes, referred to as embodiment, has revolutionized cognitive research (Glenberg et al., 2013). Interest in this approach has grown substantially in the last few decades. Embodied cognition has now been demonstrated across a wide range of topics, from babies (e.g., Smith and Gasser, 2005) to elderly adul...

Guest Editorial Sensorimotor Contingencies for Cognitive Robotics

The sensorimotor approach to cognition states, that the key to bring semantics to the world of a robot, requires making the robot learn the relation between the actions that the robot performs and the change it experiences in its sensed data because of those actions. Those relations are called sensorimotor contingencies. This special issue presents a variety of recent developments in sensorimot...

Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that cognition is better explicated as a much more general biological phenomenon, allowing the lower bound of cognition to extend much further down the phylogenetic scale. We argue that elementary forms of cognition can alread...

Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition