SENSORY MOTOR-LOOP 1)2)
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The circular relation between motor functions and sensory apparatus that characterizes our interpretations of our environment.
H.von FOERSTER says: "In 1895 POINCARÉ was, I believe, the first to connect movement, or the change in position with the change in perception, and who said: "One interpretes the other". that is, through my motor functions I interpret sensory input, and my sensory apparatus interpret motor inputs
"He adds that PIAGET found that in children"… their motor activity interprets their sensorium; that motoric changes their sensations; that a relationship exists between the change in body position and changes in sensation. The coupling of these two allows for the construction of what I claim to be the object (in German: "Gegenstand") the one that stands up against (again in German: "ent-gegensteht") (p. 21, 2002)
The sensory motorloop seems thus to be the necessary basic condition for any constructivist view.
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