The body schema: neural simulation for covert and overt actions of embodied cognitive agents

This brief commentary on the general topic of ‘body schema’ is focused its computational role, as an internal model that integrates proprioceptive information, for allowing embodied cognitive agents to carry out neural simulation covert and overt actions in a unitary manner. The discussion takes inspiration from vintage but still valid seminal observation by Marr Poggio that, order understand agents, both human artificial, we should consider them Generalized Information Processing Systems, be analyzed along three levels: computational, algorithmic, implementation. Accordingly, body schema concept briefly this line, with purpose outlining architecture links cognition motor control through schema.