One of the most exciting debates in philosophy of imagination in recent years has been over
the epistemic use of imagination where imagination epistemically contributes to justifying …

The theory of mental gravity posits that phenomenological, cognitive, and affective states of
an embodied self are structured according to the experience of physical gravity (ie, internal …

This review article explores the foundation of laypeople's understanding of the physical
world rooted in perceptual experience. Beginning with a concise historical overview of the …

Humans are able to perceive, understand and reason about causal events. Developing
models with similar physical and causal understanding capabilities is a long-standing goal …

To engage with the physical world, we rely on our intuitive sense of how objects will behave
when we act on them or they interact with each other. Objects' latent properties such as …

In this work, we present a reconfigurable data glove design to capture different modes of
human hand–object interactions, which are critical in training embodied artificial intelligence …

Current evaluation protocols predominantly assess physical reasoning in stationary scenes,
creating a gap in evaluating agents' abilities to interact with dynamic events. While …

We introduce both conceptual and empirical findings arising from the amalgamation of a
robotics cognitive architecture with an embedded physics simulator, aligning with the …

How do people make causal judgments and assign responsibility? In this review article, I
argue that counterfactual simulations are key. To simulate counterfactuals, we need three …

Our intuitive understanding of physical dynamics is crucial in daily life. When we fill a coffee
cup, stack items in a refrigerator, or navigate around a slippery patch of ice, we draw on our …