linear structure narratives have a linear structure driven by time, theories have a linear structure directed by logic speaking is linear, one word after another, #language#phenomenology#music
specific and abstract labels Calling ordinary things with more abstract or more specific labels sounds odd in ordinary situations. If I offer you a ride because I’ve brought my
minimum joint action Both electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional MRI (fMRI) research shows that participants keep their joint task (the overall goal and procedures) #actions
insider perspective of the body We have an insider’s view of the body, one shaped by our actions and sensations, unlike our outsider view of other things in our world that is #somatic
sensory homunculus Rather than representing the sizes of the body parts, the sizes of the cortical representations of the various body parts are proportional to the #sensory#spatiality
who, what, and where are so fundamental that the brain has specialized regions for recognizing them, multiple for each: faces, bodies, objects, scenes. When is harder,
animacy, self-propelled bodies The actions of bodies are qualitatively different from the actions of other objects: bodies are self-propelled, which means bodies can perform #perception
coordinating bodies, cooperation There are so many ways that organisms rapidly coordinate their behavior with each other performing the same action at the same time in the same #movement
homunculi, mind in motion We map our bodies onto our brains, onto the homunculus, the “little man,” sprawled ear-to-ear across the cortex, of our brains, a thick, crenellated
human sensitivity to biological motion Human sensitivity to biological motion documented by Gunnar Johansson, Swedish perceptual psychologist, 1973, using point-light videos (people #movement