A difference in skin temperature between the hands has been identified as a physiological correlate of the rubber hand illusion (RHI). The RHI is an illusion of body ownership, where participants perceive body ownership over a rubber hand if they see it being stroked in synchrony with their own occluded hand. The current study set out to replicate this result, i.e., psychologically induced...
The book Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics proposes how a particular kind of simulation model, i.e. Evolutionary Robotics simulations, can help to solve several problems in Cognitive Science. Examples discussed in the book ranges from motor control, neuroscientific theory, social contingency and time perception. It is argued that methodological minimalism can be a merit, not a...
This opening chapter introduces the philosophical and paradigmatic context in which the research presented in this book has been generated. It forms the foundation for the description and development of the methods employed and developed (chapter 3) and their later application (just modelling: chapters 4-7; combined modelling and experimental work: chapters 8-11). The significance of the...
As the topic of this book is methodological, this chapter is its core piece and contains a lot of novel material. It presents a methodological framework for the enactive study of human perception. Rather than to just iterate proven methods, large parts of this chapter are dedicated to science-theoretic and methodological argument, to explain and justify the methods proposed and to identify...