There is a growing body of research indicating that bodily sensation and behavior strongly influences one's emotional reaction toward certain situations or objects. On this background, a framework model of embodied affectivity is suggested: we regard emotions as resulting from the circular interaction between affective qualities or affordances in the environment and the subject's bodily resonan...

Combination of visual and kinesthetic information is essential to perceive bodily movements. We conducted behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments to investigate the neuronal correlates of visuokinesthetic combination in perception of hand movement. Participants experienced illusory flexion movement of their hand elicited by tendon vibration while they viewed video-recor...

Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to provide an answer to it, as is the goal of this article. There are now hundreds of articles on human emotion perception ranging from behavioural studies to brain imaging experiments. These experimental studi...

Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question ‘Why bodies’ and to try to provide an answer to it, as is the goal of this article. There are now hundreds of articles on human emotion perception ranging from behavioural studies to brain imaging experiments. These experimental studi...

The development and expression of higher cognitive functions, such as imitation, spatial perception, and tool-use rely on a body schema. Up to date, no general methodology exists about how a robot could learn its body representation. We propose a developmental approach to build the bodily self from the robot own multimodal sensorimotor experiences of self-observation and active interaction with...

This essay aims to expose the metaphysical underpinnings of enactivism. While enactivism relies heavily on rejecting traditional mind-body problem by excluding familiar thought experiments that favor phenomenal dualism, crucial point is overlooked instead brain-body problem, specifically interaction between brain and bodily limbs in their embodied activities perception cognition. If correct, di...

Fifteen years ago Koffka pointed out that perceived space could be characterized as constituting what he called a "framework" (6). Implicit in every visual perception were reference-axes of vertical and horizontal, somewhat analogous to the coordinate axes of abstract geometrical space. Objects in phenomenal space, he said, are seen to be upright or tilted or inverted only by virtue of this fra...