Sensomotoric Theory of Cognition

During the past years, an old idea introduced by Hume and central to the Behaviourist theories has come to new life. Then, it was proposing that thinking is a kind of covert acting. Now this reads such that imaging something is done by using the same brain areals as actually perceiving this, and imaging to do something by activating motor areals, while inhibiting the motoric neurons. Planning is coupling these two processes, and cognition is defined as a system able to plan. 

Following this sensomotoric theory of mind also some implementations were done for use in robots, of which one is briefly presented. 

Interestingly, some experiments done in our lab by Eric Antonelo about 'dreaming robots' use a similar core idea as this proof of concept implementation.