PAC: Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action

大多数关于人类感知和行动的研究倾向于将它们视为独立的功能。在这些研究领域中较少被考虑的是，人类与一个感知世界互动，在这个世界中，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动作的基础。理论上说，它在伸展和抓住、运动和导航、婴儿模仿、空间和社会视角获取以及幻肢疼痛和自闭症等各种神经功能障碍方面发挥作用。行为研究揭示了一些诱人的结果，指出了身体在人类基本功能中的代表作用；神经科学家已经确定了身体在大脑皮层和专门用于代表空间和地点的特定大脑区域内的多个感觉运动图；发育研究人员已经确定了表示自我的新生儿行为，并追踪了早期空间定向行动的过程。我们需要的是共同努力，融合行为科学、神经科学和发展心理学的观点，以进一步加深我们对自我表征的理解。在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，通过这个论坛，来自不同角度的研究人员可以聚集在一起，分享他们的发现、想法、抱负和关切。

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.