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On the distinction between “sensorimotor” and “motorsensory” contingencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Donald Laming
Donald Laming
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United [email protected]
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Abstract

An experimenter studies “sensorimotor contingencies”; the stimulus is primary and the subject's response consequential. But the subject, looking at the world from his or her distinctive viewpoint, is occupied with “motorsensory contingencies”; the response is now primary and the sensory consequential. These two categories are gathered together under the one term in the target article. This commentary disambiguates the confusion.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 992
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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