ACTIVE SELF

The Priority Program brings together cognitive and behavioral scientists from various disciplines, including psychology and robotics, to study the sensorimotor grounding of the human minimal self. The relatively recent increasing interest in the self is fueled by important methodological improvements, such as the availability of virtual-reality techniques and affordable robots with humanoid characteristics, and the development of noninvasive methods to study cognition in infants, but also by converging lines of theoretical thinking related to ideomotor processes on the one hand and embodied cognition on the other.