Projekt

The project ThinkAct aims at clarifying the interdependencies between thinking and motor control: Are there specific factors and mechanisms that play a constitutive role in both motor control and action concepts? ThinkAct thereby shall critically explore and prove the thesis of "grounded action cognition" which claims that basic sensorimotor processes provide the foundation for higher-level cognition, and the ability to think about actions in particular. Also the converse relation - the important role of thinking and the ability to perceive actions for basic motor control - will be explored in detail. Furthermore, ThinkAct shall investigate the implications of the notion of grounded action cognition for the architecture of the mind. ThinkAct will investigate this topic by combining philosophical analysis with cognitive neurology and psychology.

• Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vosgerau

  Universität Düsseldorf
  Philosophische Fakultät
  Institut für Philosophie
  Düsseldorf
  

• Dr. Matthis Synofzik

  Universität Tübingen
  Hertie-Institut für Klinische Hirnforschung
  Abteilung für Neurodegeneration &
  Abteilung für Kognitive Neurologie
  Tübingen
  

• Dr. Simone Schütz-Bosbach

  Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions-
  und Neurowissenschaften
  Standort Leipzig
  Junior Research Group
  "Body and Self"
  Leipzig