Archive for May, 2009

PSR…

May 27, 2009

Funny video showing an example of the corridor situation (De Jaegher & Di Paolo, 2007) from the film The Science of Sleep.

So, where’s the brain, people?
Ezequiel
(thanks to Eduardo!)

Seminar #52: Enacting motor goals

May 15, 2009

We will have Massimiliano Cappuccio visit us next Wednesday to give a Life and Mind talk at 4:30pm in Arun-401. Title and abstract below:
Enacting motor goals: mirror neurons, motor intentionality and the frame problem
Massimiliano Cappuccio
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Date: Wed. 20th, May 2009
Location: Arun-401
Experiments carried out by Rizzolatti’s group in Parma suggest that the premotor cortex may codify [...]

New paper on enactive intersubjectivity

May 11, 2009

A new paper on enactive intersubjecitivity has just appeared in Consciousness and Cognition.
De Jaegher, H. (2009). “Social understanding through direct perception? Yes, by interacting.” Consciousness and Cognition 18(2): 535-542.
Abstract:”This paper comments on Gallagher’s recently published direct perception proposal about social cognition [Gallagher, S. (2008a). Direct perception in the intersubjective context. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(2), 535–543]. [...]