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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Donald Laming
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom drjl@cus.cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

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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.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press