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Sensorimotor grounding and reused cognitive domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Maria Brincker
Maria Brincker
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Department of Philosophy, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016. mbrincker@gc.cuny.edusites.google.com/site/mariabrincker/
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Abstract

Anderson suggests that theories of sensorimotor grounding are too narrow to account for his findings of widespread “reuse” supporting multiple different cognitive “task domains.” I call some of the methodological assumptions underlying this conclusion into question, and suggest that his examples reaffirm rather than undermine the special status of sensorimotor processes in cognitive evolution.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 270 - 271
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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