Reproducing the capabilities of the human sense of touch in machines is an important step
in enabling robot manipulation to have the ease of human dexterity. A combination of robotic …

Intelligent animals devote much time and energy to exploring and obtaining information, but
the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We review recent developments on this …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best
Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times; A …

Although our subjective impression is of a richly detailed visual world, numerous empirical
results suggest that the amount of visual information observers can perceive and remember …

Consciousness is now a well-established field of empirical research. A large body of
experimental results has been accumulated and is steadily growing. In parallel, many …

Unlike animal behavior, behavior in plants is traditionally assumed to be completely
determined either genetically or environmentally. Under this assumption, plants are usually …

Just over 25 years ago, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch published
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (TEM). An ambitious …

The thirty-five chapters within this handbook, all appearing in print for the first time, aim to
situate, motivate, illuminate, illustrate, and critically evaluate embodied cognition in all its …

In cognitive science, we are currently witnessing a 'pragmatic turn', away from the traditional
representation-centered framework towards a paradigm that focuses on understanding …