Commentator: Cressida Gaukroger (UCL)
\nIn the Research Unit in Cognitive and Affective Sciences\, we have recently performed a series of \;psychophysical and brain imaging studies together with neuropsychological investigations of brain-lesioned patients to demonstrate that perception is to be considered as an active process that requires \;combining sensory signals with information from the body and the action system. The influence of the \;motor system on perception will be highlighted in the domain of spatial processing in object-oriented \;behaviors. \;Furthermore\, I will also demonstrate that motor coding of space influences cognitive \;processes in social interaction and language comprehension. As a whole\, these data support the \;embodied framework of perception and cognition suggesting that ideomotor representations contribute \;to making sense to the perceptual\, conceptual and social world.
\nYann Coello \;is full Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology at the \;University of Lille and director of the Research Unit on Cognitive and Affective Sciences. He \;coordinates the group Perception\, Action and Communication working on active vision\, motor \;cognition and the neuropsychology of action. He has published many papers on embodied \;perception and cognition\, and recently the book Language and action in the cognitive \;neuroscience (Psychology Press). He is also the coordinator of the research centre Visual and \;Cultural Sciences hosted a technological platform funded by the French government (EquipEx \;Program\, project IrDIVE) and endowed with the most recent digital and interactive \;technology for investigating human behaviour\, cognition and culture.
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