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Schutz-Bosbach, Simone; Tausche, Peggy; Weiss, Carmen – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Watching a rubber hand being stroked by a paintbrush while feeling identical stroking of one's own occluded hand can create a compelling illusion that the seen hand becomes part of one's own body. It has been suggested that this so-called rubber hand illusion (RHI) does not simply reflect a bottom-up multisensory integration process but that the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Stimulation, Multisensory Learning, Perception
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Garbarini, Francesca; Adenzato, Mauro – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Recent experimental research in the field of neurophysiology has led to the discovery of two classes of visuomotor neurons: canonical neurons and mirror neurons. In light of these studies, we propose here an overview of two classical themes in the cognitive science panorama: James Gibson's theory of affordances and Eleanor Rosch's principles of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Classification, Spatial Ability, Neurology