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Motoric emulation may contribute to perceiving imitable stimuli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Margaret Wilson*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA 95064 http://psych.ucsc.edu/Faculty/mWilson.shtml
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Abstract:

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First, I note three questions that need further exploration: how fast the emulator operates, compared to the real-time events it models; what exactly perceptual emulation, with no motor component, consists of; and whether images are equivalent to raw sensations. Next, I propose that Grush's framework can explain the role of motor activation in processing “imitable” stimuli.

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