This ABiALS workshop focuses on how predictions and anticipations are involved in the generation of internal spatial representations, their interactions, and the embedding of dynamically unfolding control routines. Particularly, various research disciplines suggest that anticipatory and predictive sensorimotor mechanisms are a crucial component in the development of useful spatial representations and the embedding of complex behavioral interaction routines.
Thus, in short, this workshop addresses the following three main questions:
First, how do distributed spatial representations develop and how are they adapted?
Second, how can these (interacting) representations be effectively utilized to interact with the environment?
Third, how are more complex behavioral routines, such as object manipulations, tool usage, or joint actions, learned, represented in compressed form, and flexibly activated in interaction with the various sensorimotor spatial representations available?