Conscious thought as simulation of behaviour and perception.

By Germund Hesslow. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Control of mental activities by internal models in the cerebellum (2008, background): “or more globally in regions that include the primary sensory and motor area”
Prediction, Cognition and the Brain (2009, background): “…different systems, simulation theories of cognition have emphasized the role of internal simulations or emulations not just within one, but across many different cognitive domains, arguing that these can mostly be reduced to covert simulations based on internal models (Hesslow, 2002; Grush, 2004).”
The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics. (2005, background): “For example, the idea that there is activation of associative links between a particular action and its particular sensory effects, based on past experience (e.g., Blakemore & Decety, 2001; Buccino et al., 2004; Hesslow, 2002), suggests that the activated sensory representations will be from a first”
Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “The emergence of the “inner world” as a consequence of behavioral and perceptual simulation means that one can have covert actions without realizing them as motor acts; moreover, percepts can be simulated without any external physical stimuli, and the consequences of the forthcoming actions can be a”
Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition (2013, background): “It has been proposed that bodily internal models can be reenacted and used in simulation [199, 200], emulation [201], or other (Bayesian) generative schemes [202] to support higher cognition in individual and social domains.”
Planning in young children: A review and synthesis (2011, methodology): “To make this argument, we introduce the notion of the simulation of action sequences in the sense most clearly articulated by Hesslow (2002). Hesslow argues for a very basic notion of simulation: ‘‘The idea that behavior can be simulated means that the activity in the motor structures, which prepare”
Mental imagery of speech: linking motor and perceptual systems through internal simulation and estimation (2012, background): “Theoretically, such a cascaded estimation architecture has been hypothesized by Hesslow (2002).”
Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulation (2009, background): “1994); decision-making (e.g. Kahneman & Tversky 1982); mechanical reasoning (e.g. Hegarty 2004); consciousness (e.g. Hesslow 2002); creativity (Clement 2008); social cognition (e.g. Gordon 1986); affective regulation (e.g. Gilbert & Wilson 2007); and mental imagery (e.g. Kosslyn 2008).”
Making decisions with the future in mind: Developmental and comparative identification of mental time travel (2005, methodology): “We can mentally simulate behavior that we may perform (or have performed) and perceptions we may experience (or have experienced) (cf., Hesslow, 2002).”