Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action

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Roberta L. Klatzky, Brian MacWhinney, Marlene Behrmann
Psychology Press, Jun 20, 2008 - Psychology - 480 pages
The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the positions and actions (potential or ongoing) of other acti

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About the Editors
1947
Measuring Spatial Perception with Spatial Updating
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Bodily and Motor Contributions to Action Perception
OnLine Body Perception in the Context
Psychophysical Studies of
The Embodied Actor in Multiple Frames of Reference
An ActionSpecific Approach to Spatial Perception
A Framework
fMRI Investigations of Reaching and Ego Space in Human
What Infant Locomotion Tells
How Mental Models Encode Embodied Linguistic Perspectives
Author Index
Subject Index
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