Projektnummer

0054702

Zusammenfassung

The project ThinkAct aims at clarifying the interdependencies between thinking and motor control: Are there specific factors and mechanisms that play a constitutive role in both motor control and action concepts? ThinkAct thereby shall critically explore and prove the thesis of "grounded action cognition" which claims that basic sensorimotor processes provide the foundation for higher-level cognition, and the ability to think about actions in particular. Also the converse relation - the important role of thinking and the ability to perceive actions for basic motor control - will be exp...