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Does TEC explain the emergence of distal representations?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Mark Siebel
Mark Siebel*
Affiliation:
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Leipzig, 04107Leipzig, Germanyhttp://www.uni-leipzig.de/~logik
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siebel@uni-leipzig.de
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Abstract:

Hommel et al. (2001) try to explain the emergence of distal representations by an evolutionary account which includes their theory of event coding. A closer look at the way the terms “distal representations” and “representations of events” are defined reveals, however, that their hypothesis of a common code for perceived and to-be-produced events is in fact superfluous. Moreover, it shows that they mix up empirical facts with conceptual/definitional facts in the second assumption of their explanation.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 588 - 589
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

Commentary onBernhard Hommel, Jochen Müsseler, Gisa Aschersleben, & Wolfgang Prinz (2001). The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planning. BBS 24(5):849–878.

References

Hommel, B., Müsseler, J., Aschersleben, G. & Prinz, W. (2001) The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(5):849–78. [MS]Google Scholar