The emulation theory of representation: Motor control, imagery, and perception

By Rick Grush. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Representation & Self-Supervised Learning

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “…inputs: for example, producing overt speech is thought to involve the sending of an “efference copy” of the speech motor plan to speech perception areas, forming the basis for a predictive model of what the utterance will sound like, and inhibiting the ensuing auditory response (Grush, 2004).”
Motor imagery and action observation: cognitive tools for rehabilitation (2007, background): “Grush (2004) takes a related standpoint, but goes one step further by stating that motor imagery results from the control centers of the brain driving an emulator of the body, whereby the normal efferent flow is disengaged from the muscle system.”
Multi-timescale nexting in a reinforcement learning robot (2011, background): “The ﬁrst approach is to build a myopic forward model of the world’s dynamics, either in terms of diﬀerential equations or state-transition probabilities (e.g., Wolpert et al. 1995, Grush 2004, Sutton 1990).”
Visible embodiment: Gestures as simulated action (2008, background): “Grush, R. (2004). The emulation theory of representation: Motor”
The immersive spatiotemporal hallucination model of dreaming (2010, background): “(for an overview and further references, see Kosslyn 1994; Kind 2006; Grush 2004; Currie and Ravenscroft 2002:71ff).”
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.”
Abstract concepts: sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond (2011, background): “The idea that the elements of thought are not words or symbols, but visual and motor images is at the core of recent theories of cognition (e.g., Barsalou, 1999b; Glenberg, 1997; Grush, 2004; Zwaan, 1999), that are commonly referred to by the label grounded cognition.”
I see it in my hands’ eye: Representational gestures reflect conceptual demands (2007, background): “Furthermore, it has been proposed that motor ‘emulations’ (e.g., motor plans) provide feedback to the ‘controller’ (e.g., cognitive system) that is less delayed than the feedback from overt actions (Grush, 2004).”
Mental imagery of speech: linking motor and perceptual systems through internal simulation and estimation (2012, background): “Mental imagery has been linked to the concept of internal forward models by the argument that the subjective feeling in mental imagery is the result of the internal estimation of the perceptual consequences following the internal simulation of an action (Grush, 2004).”
The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes (2017, background): “…proximal and distal sensory consequences of an action, and which can serve in comparisons with either actual sensory feedback or the desired state of the agent (for predictive in-the-head models of cognition in general also see Wolpert et al. 2003; Knill and Pouget 2004; Grush 2004; or Seth 2014).”
Analogues of mental simulation and imagination in deep learning (2019, neutral): “[72]) which consider mental imagery to be strongly coupled to actions.”
Free-Energy Minimization and the Dark-Room Problem (2012, methodology): “…we harvest sensory signals Frontiers in Psychology | Perception Science May 2012 | Volume 3 | Article 130 | 2 that we can predict (cf., emulation theory; Grush, 2004); ensuring we keep to well-trodden paths in the space of all the physical and physiological variables that underwrite our existence.”