{"id":706,"date":"2014-03-28T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:08:16","slug":"publication-contemporary-sensorimotor-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Book launch: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-707\" alt=\"sensorimotor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sensorimotor.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"232\" \/><strong>Why does a circle look curved and not angular? And why does red not sound like a bell?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To answer these questions, Goldsmiths&#8217; Professor of Cognitive Computing Mark Bishop has co-edited the new book<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-05107-9\">Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of 16 essays, the book takes examples from human-computer interaction, children\u2019s play, virtual reality, robotics and linguistics to analyse the philosophical foundations of sensorimotor theory &#8211; and introduce a radically new approach in cognitive science.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Bishop and his co-editor Andrew Martin will launch the book at Goldsmiths&#8217; New Academic Building at <strong>7pm Monday 31 March 2014<\/strong>. All are welcome &#8211; email <a href=\"mailto:m.bishop@gold.ac.uk\">m.bishop@gold.ac.uk<\/a> to book a place.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/staff\/m-bishop\/\">Mark Bishop<\/a> is Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does a circle look curved and not angular? And why does red not sound like a bell? To answer these questions, Goldsmiths&#8217; Professor of Cognitive Computing Mark Bishop has co-edited the new book Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory. Over the course of 16 essays, the book takes examples from human-computer interaction, children\u2019s play, virtual reality, robotics &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book launch: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,109,107],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}