Category Archives: Non classé

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Rana Esseily, Lauriane Rat-Fischer, Eszter Somogyi, Kevin John O’Regan & Jacqueline Fagard “Humour production may enhance observational learning of a new tool-use action in 18-month-old infants” Abstract Many studies have shown that making children laugh enhances certain cognitive capacities such as … Continue reading →

Lucia Foglia and Kevin O’Regan “A new imagery debate: enactive and sensorimotor accounts” to appear in Review of Philosophy and Psychology Abstract Traditionally, the “Imagery Debate” has opposed two main camps: depictivism and descriptivism. This debate has essentially focused on … Continue reading →

May 9th: Scholarpedia article published: Sensorimotor theory of consciousness. Jan Degenaar & J. Kevin O’Regan (2015). Scholarpedia 10 (5): 4952. The sensorimotor theory of perceptual consciousness (e.g. O’Regan & Noë 2001; O’Regan 2011) aims to account for the phenomenal character … Continue reading →

Can your sense of direction be improved with wearable? Project member, Frank Schumann featured in the Nokia HERE blog.     

Mar 10th: Our thorough explanation of the colour-switching dress is out – with lots of illustrations!

TRY this: close your eyes and touch your nose with your index finger. You know that you are touching yourself, but how do you know it? A moment’s reflection suggests that your brain makes that deduction because it detects that … Continue reading →

“The scientist who learned to see the world upside down“. Press coverage in Spanish, for Jan and his inverting goggles experiment.

We had the pleasure of receiving Alexander Maye from universitätsklinikum (Hamburg) in our lab.

HISTORICALLY, philosophers and scientists have thought about perception in terms of what it tells us about the world—its informational content. But a moment’s reflection reveals that there is more to it than that. “Something has been left out,” says philosopher … Continue reading →