New cognitive architecture sheds light on body's role in cognition.
The article discusses how cognitive architectures can help us understand how our bodies are involved in thinking. It suggests that a good cognitive architecture should show us how our bodies affect our thinking and whether our bodies are necessary for thinking. By designing architectures that can explore how different bodies impact thinking, we can learn more about embodied cognition. The semantic pointer architecture by Eliasmith and colleagues is seen as a promising framework for studying embodied cognition further.