Main description:

This is the first volume in the Cognitive Computation Trends book series, summarising our understanding on the neural correlate of memory, perception-representation, action, language, emotion and consciousness and their mutual interactions.

Integrating research in the field of the Neuroscience, Robotics and Virtual Reality, this book is an original and attainable resource that has not been developed in any other writing. In 5 chapters, the author considers that representations are based on allegorical traces and are consciously and/or unconsciously embrained, and that the creation of robots is the expression of the mind. Whole-body virtual motion is thought of as the archetypal expression of virtual reality. Therefore, visual reality is analysed in a context of visuo-vestibular and somesthetic conflict while mixed and augmented reality are scrutinised in a context of visuo-vestibular and somesthetic interaction.

This monograph is an indispensable handbook for students and investigators engaged in history of science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, engineering and those interested in there interconnections. The ambition of the book is to give students and investigators ideas on which they can build their future research in this new blooming area.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The mind

The past is prologue: a brief history of Mind and Brain

The internalised brain-machine

The theory of mind localisation

Cerebral Transparency Techniques

Neuro-Cognitivism/Neuro-Constructivism

Neurosymbolism or how wor(l)d meaning may be grounded in perceptual Experience

Chapter 3 Dynamic Embrained Systems

Cognitive models and neural support for memory systems

Dynamic multimodal perceptual processes: a neural network

From perception to action

From motor action to verbal action

Neural correlates of emotional and cognitive interaction

Self-Consciousness vs Consciousness

Chapter 4 Externalised Mind 1

Real vs Artificial environments: Robots

Enrobotment

Neuro-robotics based on neurocognition

From Deus ex Machina to Conscientia ex Machina

Toy Robots and Children with Neuro-developmental ASD

Chapter 5 Externalised Mind 2

Self-Motion perception (i.e. Vection), Virtual vs Augmented reality

Virtual self-motion

Real and Virtual Brain

Perception of linear motion in real environments

Navigation in the virtual world

Perceiving three-dimensional objects

Virtual Mirror vs Virtual Presence

Virtual environments and Neuroscience

Index