Perception is Simulated Action -- The Motor Theory of Perception -- The Concept of Acceptor of the Results of Action -- Bernstein's Comparator -- Memory Predicts the Consequences of Action -- Mental Nodes -- Mirror Neurons -- Simulation, Emulation, or Representation? -- The Sense of Movement: A Sixth Sense? -- Proprioception -- The Vestibulary System: An Intertial Center? -- The Functions of the Vestibular System -- Seeing Movement -- Building Coherence -- How Vision Detects Movement -- Visual Movement and Vestibular Receptors -- Am I in my Bed or Hanging from the Ceiling? -- The Coherence between Seeing and Hearing -- The Problem of the Coherence and Unity of Perception -- Autism: The Disintegration of Coherence? -- Frames of Reference -- Personal Space and Extrapersonal Space -- Egocentric and Allocentric Frames of Reference -- Natural Frames of Reference -- Selecting Frames of Reference -- A Memory for Predicting -- Topographic Memory or Topokinetic Memory? -- The Neural Basis of Spatial Memory: The Role of the Hippocampus -- Natural Movement -- Pioneers -- The Problem of Number of Degrees of Freedom -- The Invention of the Eye -- The Form of a Drawing Is Produced by the Law of Maximal Smoothness -- Synergies and Strategies -- Vestibular Axon Branching and Gaze Stabilization -- The Baby Fish that Wanted to Swim Flat on Its Stomach -- The Neural Bases for Encoding Movement of the Arms -- Coordination of Synergies -- Capture -- The Toad's Decision -- The Art of Braking -- What If Newton Had Wanted to Catch the Apple?
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