Thomas Buhrmann

A dynamical systems account of sensorimotor contingencies.

Frontiers in Psychology May 27, 2013 Thomas Buhrmann, Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo, Xabier E. Barandiaran

According to the sensorimotor approach, perception is a form of embodied know-how, constituted by lawful regularities in the sensorimotor flow or in sensorimotor contingencies (SMCs) in an active and situated agent. Despite the attention that this approach has attracted, there have been few attempts to define its core concepts formally. In this paper, we examine the idea of SMCs and argue that...