http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/06/ive-got-your-missing-links-right-here-6-october-2012-2/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/06/ive-got-your-missing-links-right-here-6-october-2012-2/#comment-16068 Cody Burkett Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:30:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7743#comment-16068 There's no link in relation to the Dinosaur... There’s no link in relation to the Dinosaur…

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/06/ive-got-your-missing-links-right-here-6-october-2012-2/#comment-16067 Andrew Wilson Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:03:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7743#comment-16067 On jumping spiders and memory: Portia doesn't actually build a mental map. There is now strong evidence that its scanning behaviour is a real time perceptual strategy that makes it look as if it's planning; see Chapter 4 of Louise Barrett's excellent book, 'Beyond the Brain'; the chapter is called 'The Implausible Nature of Portia' and has references to all the primary literature on this. Lou uses it as an example of embodied cognition, and it's an excellent one. On jumping spiders and memory: Portia doesn’t actually build a mental map. There is now strong evidence that its scanning behaviour is a real time perceptual strategy that makes it look as if it’s planning; see Chapter 4 of Louise Barrett’s excellent book, ‘Beyond the Brain’; the chapter is called ‘The Implausible Nature of Portia’ and has references to all the primary literature on this. Lou uses it as an example of embodied cognition, and it’s an excellent one.

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