PAC: Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action

大多数关于人类感知和行为的研究倾向于将它们视为独立的功能。在这些研究领域中很少考虑的是，人类与感知世界互动，他们自己是感知表征的一部分。 越来越多的证据表明，自我表征是执行和理解空间定向行为的基础。理论上，它在伸手和抓握、运动和导航、婴儿模仿、空间和社会观点的获取以及幻肢痛和自闭症等各种神经功能障碍中发挥作用。 行为研究揭示了一些诱人的结果，指出了身体的表征在基本人类功能中的作用;神经科学家已经确定了大脑皮层和专门用于空间和地点表征的特定大脑区域内的身体的多个感觉运动图;和发展研究者已经确定了新生儿的行为，表明自我的表征，并追踪了空间取向的行动过程在早年间。我们需要的是共同努力，将行为科学、神经科学和发展心理学的观点融合在一起，以进一步理解自我表征。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，2006年卡内基研讨会将提供一个论坛，来自这些不同观点的研究人员可以聚集在一起分享他们的发现，想法，愿望和关注。

The majority of research on human perception and action tends to treat these as separate functions. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation. Evidence has been mounting to show that self-representation is fundamental to both executing and understanding spatially directed action. It has been theorized to play a role in reaching and grasping, locomotion and navigation, infant imitation, spatial and social perspective taking, and neurological dysfunctions as diverse as phantom limb pain and autism. Behavioral research has revealed a number of tantalizing outcomes that point to a role for the representation of the body in basic human function; neuroscientists have identified multiple sensorimotor maps of the body within the cortex and specific brain areas devoted to the representation of space and place; and developmental researchers have identified neonatal behaviors indicating a representation of self and have traced the course of spatially oriented action across the early years. What is needed is a shared effort to merge perspectives of behavioral science, neuroscience, and developmental psychology in order to further our understanding of self-representation. With support from the National Science Foundation, the 2006 Carnegie Symposium will provide a forum by which researchers from these various perspectives can come together to share their findings, ideas, aspirations, and concerns.