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The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition
Published on: February 19, 2018
[The shifting territories of mental travel]
, Manik Bhattacharjee1, Thomas Christen2
1Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, INP, TIMC, Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
How does experience outside the present moment become part of living matter? Mental travel, which is both creative and low-carbon, is an experience that anyone can enjoy without needing to abstract from immediacy and project themselves beyond reality. The possibility of such a virtual journey has long fascinated philosophers and then scientists. What does mental travel actually involve? Which neural circuits are engaged? What are the conditions that take us on a hallucinatory journey, deprive us of it, or enable us to control it? What are the adaptive advantages of this imaginary journey? Is it present in other living beings and in our "intelligent" machines?
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