Let us redeploy attention to sensorimotor experience

With his massive redeployment hypothesis (MRH), Anderson claims that novel cognitive functions are likely to rely on pre-existing circuits already possessing suitable resources. Here, we put forward recent findings from studies in numerical cognition in order to show that the role of sensorimotor ex...

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Published in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2010-08, Vol.33 (4), p.283-284
Main Authors: Michaux, Nicolas, Pesenti, Mauro, Badets, Arnaud, Di Luca, Samuel, Andres, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive science
Empiricism
Psychology
Semantics
Sensorimotor system
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Summary:With his massive redeployment hypothesis (MRH), Anderson claims that novel cognitive functions are likely to rely on pre-existing circuits already possessing suitable resources. Here, we put forward recent findings from studies in numerical cognition in order to show that the role of sensorimotor experience in the ontogenetical development of a new function has been largely underestimated in Anderson's proposal.
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X10001251