Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically

Learning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet understand? According to the sensorimotor approach, perception involves mastery of regular sensorimotor co-variations that depend o...

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Autores: Di Paolo, Ezequiel, Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio, Beaton, Michael James Stuart, Buhrmann, Thomas
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Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:sensorimotor contingencies
Piaget's theory of equilibration
dynamical systems
open-ended learning
self-organization
plasticity
vision
space
consciousness
contingency
experience
cognition
robotics
behavior
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PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH
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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
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spelling Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamicallyDi Paolo, EzequielBarandiaran Fernández, Xabier EugenioBeaton, Michael James StuartBuhrmann, Thomassensorimotor contingenciesPiaget's theory of equilibrationdynamical systemsopen-ended learningself-organizationplasticityvisionspaceconsciousnesscontingencyexperiencecognitionroboticsbehaviorBEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCEPSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTHNEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGYNEUROLOGYBIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRYLearning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet understand? According to the sensorimotor approach, perception involves mastery of regular sensorimotor co-variations that depend on the agent and the environment, also known as the "laws" of sensorimotor contingencies (SMCs). In this sense, perception involves enacting relevant sensorimotor skills in each situation. It is important for this proposal that such skills can be learned and refined with experience and yet up to this date, the sensorimotor approach has had no explicit theory of perceptual learning. The situation is made more complex if we acknowledge the open-ended nature of human learning. In this paper we propose Piaget's theory of equilibration as a potential candidate to fulfill this role. This theory highlights the importance of intrinsic sensorimotor norms, in terms of the closure of sensorimotor schemes. It also explains how the equilibration of a sensorimotor organization faced with novelty or breakdowns proceeds by re-shaping pre-existing structures in coupling with dynamical regularities of the world. This way learning to perceive is guided by the equilibration of emerging forms of skillful coping with the world. We demonstrate the compatibility between Piaget's theory and the sensorimotor approach by providing a dynamical formalization of equilibration to give an explicit micro-genetic account of sensorimotor learning and, by extension, of how we learn to perceive. This allows us to draw important lessons in the form of general principles for open-ended sensorimotor learning, including the need for an intrinsic normative evaluation by the agent itself. We also explore implications of our micro-genetic account at the personal level.Thanks to Leonardo Bich, Marieke Rohde, and John Stewart useful comments on earlier versions of this article, This work is funded by the eSMCs: Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition project, FP7-ICT-2009-6 no: 270212. Thanks also to IAS-Research group funding IT590-13 from the Basque Government.Frontiers Research Foundation201520152014info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/16295reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00551/abstractinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess© 2014 Di Paolo, Barandiaran, Beaton and Buhrmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/162952026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
title Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
spellingShingle Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
Di Paolo, Ezequiel
sensorimotor contingencies
Piaget's theory of equilibration
dynamical systems
open-ended learning
self-organization
plasticity
vision
space
consciousness
contingency
experience
cognition
robotics
behavior
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEUROLOGY
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
title_short Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
title_full Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
title_fullStr Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
title_full_unstemmed Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
title_sort Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Di Paolo, Ezequiel
Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio
Beaton, Michael James Stuart
Buhrmann, Thomas
author Di Paolo, Ezequiel
author_facet Di Paolo, Ezequiel
Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio
Beaton, Michael James Stuart
Buhrmann, Thomas
author_role author
author2 Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio
Beaton, Michael James Stuart
Buhrmann, Thomas
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author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv sensorimotor contingencies
Piaget's theory of equilibration
dynamical systems
open-ended learning
self-organization
plasticity
vision
space
consciousness
contingency
experience
cognition
robotics
behavior
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEUROLOGY
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
topic sensorimotor contingencies
Piaget's theory of equilibration
dynamical systems
open-ended learning
self-organization
plasticity
vision
space
consciousness
contingency
experience
cognition
robotics
behavior
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEUROLOGY
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
description Learning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet understand? According to the sensorimotor approach, perception involves mastery of regular sensorimotor co-variations that depend on the agent and the environment, also known as the "laws" of sensorimotor contingencies (SMCs). In this sense, perception involves enacting relevant sensorimotor skills in each situation. It is important for this proposal that such skills can be learned and refined with experience and yet up to this date, the sensorimotor approach has had no explicit theory of perceptual learning. The situation is made more complex if we acknowledge the open-ended nature of human learning. In this paper we propose Piaget's theory of equilibration as a potential candidate to fulfill this role. This theory highlights the importance of intrinsic sensorimotor norms, in terms of the closure of sensorimotor schemes. It also explains how the equilibration of a sensorimotor organization faced with novelty or breakdowns proceeds by re-shaping pre-existing structures in coupling with dynamical regularities of the world. This way learning to perceive is guided by the equilibration of emerging forms of skillful coping with the world. We demonstrate the compatibility between Piaget's theory and the sensorimotor approach by providing a dynamical formalization of equilibration to give an explicit micro-genetic account of sensorimotor learning and, by extension, of how we learn to perceive. This allows us to draw important lessons in the form of general principles for open-ended sensorimotor learning, including the need for an intrinsic normative evaluation by the agent itself. We also explore implications of our micro-genetic account at the personal level.
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