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Benefits of embodiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Bruce James MacLennan
Bruce James MacLennan*
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996. [email protected]://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan
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Abstract

Physical competence is acquired through animals' embodied interaction with their physical environments, and psychological competence is acquired through situated interaction with other agents. The acquired neural models essential to these competencies are implicit and permit more fluent and nuanced behavior than explicit models. The challenge is to understand how such models are acquired and used to control behavior.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e271
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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