PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Symbol Grounding Problem, Embodied Cognition, Knowledge Representation And Reasoning
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Readers infer perceptual characteristics not mentioned in text (zwaan, stanfield & The body and sensorimotor system have a causal role in generating intelligent behaviour: there is causal connection between body and brain system, 2. Cognition requires the reactivation/simulation of the sensorimotor system. Imagining something reactivates neurons that would be active in actual situation simulation acts as a representation: 3. Distributed brain activations from sensory and motor centres serve as representation of concepts, but not of the amodal, abstract kind: knowledge is stored as neural activity which presents thought and motor activity, 4. Looked at atl and inferior parietal lobule important for using objects without hands (ipl) Ipl is damaged in people with ideomotor apraxia doing manual actions. If image is non-living then ipl is slowed, no effect for living things. Ipl not involved in knowledge of living things supports role of ipl as spoke.
