In this paper, we present five necessary and sufficient requirements for the implementation of functional imagination, as well as a minimal architecture that meets all these criteria.
Within this framework, we define functional imagination as the mechanism that allows an embodied agent to simulate its own actions and their sensory consequences internally, and to extract behavioural benefits from doing so.
Functional hoverboards though are no longer the purely the toys of imagination.
Studies on the lateralised readiness potential (LRP) [14], [15], an index of motor-related, lateralised aspects of preparatory activity, provide further evidence for functional equivalence between imagination and execution in the preparatory phase, but, similar to the CNV, show attenuated LRP amplitude for imagined movements.
Motor imagination (MI) and functional electrical stimulation (FES) can activate the sensory-motor cortex through efferent and afferent pathways respectively.
To investigate the central regulatory mechanisms activated during micturition initiation and actual micturition, we used an alternating sequence of micturition imitation/imagination, micturition initiation, and actual micturition in 22 healthy males undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Our analysis of 475 products that won Japan's Good Design Award revealed that 39% of them are designed from the expressed functional requirements, 20% surpassed people's imagination, and 67% of the latter came out from negative discomfort.
In with the emerging role of this region in coding awareness of feeling states, it was hypothesized that a common IFO region involved in the experience and observation of disgust [17], [23], will be involved in imagination and that the functional connectivity between this region and the rest of the brain will differ across experience, observation and imagination of disgust.
Here, we address this question and further examined how the functional circuitry that includes the IFO differs between the imagination, observation and experience of disgust.
The joy and problem of choosing a Top 10 of anything mappy is that maps are everywhere: as ever-present in literature as they are functional in our daily lives and vivid in our imaginations.
Despite his fanciful tendencies, Alsop has no problem with constraints, and seems to work best when the limits of budgets and functional demands can serve as a counterweight to his hyperactive imagination.
