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Embodied Cognition of Aging [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Embodiment is revolutionizing the way we consider cognition by incorporating the influence of our body and of the current context within cognitive processing.
Guillaume T Vallet
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On the need for embodied and dis-embodied cognition [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our concepts are represented in at least two ways: (i) through sensorimotor simulations of our interactions with objects and events and (ii) through sensorimotor simulations ...
Guy Dove
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Four Applications of Embodied Cognition [PDF]

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, 2012
AbstractThis article presents the views of four sets of authors, each taking concepts of embodied cognition into problem spaces where the new paradigm can be applied. The first considers consequences of embodied cognition on the legal system. The second explores how embodied cognition can change how we interpret and interact with art and literature ...
Ellen J Esrock   +2 more
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A lifespan perspective on embodied cognition [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Since its infancy embodied cognition research has fundamentally changed our understanding of how action, perception, and cognition relate to and interact with each other.
Jonna eLoeffler   +3 more
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Explaining Embodied Cognition Results [PDF]

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, 2012
AbstractFrom the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field of Cognitive Science. The idea of embodied cognition entered the field of Cognitive Linguistics at its beginning in 1975. Since then, cognitive linguists, working
George Lakoff
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Transformative Embodied Cognition

open access: yesErgo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
How should accounts that stress the embodied, embedded and engaged character of human minds accommodate the role of rationality in human subjectivity? Drawing on Matthew Boyle’s contrast between ‘additive’ and ‘transformative’ conceptions of rationality,
Dave Ward
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Embodied Cognition With and Without Mental Representations: The Case of Embodied Choices in Sports

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
In this conceptual analysis contribution to the special issue on radical embodied cognition, we discuss how embodied cognition can exist with and without representations. We explore this concept through the lens of judgment and decision-making in sports (
Markus Raab   +2 more
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Spatial-numerical associations without a motor response? Grip force says ‘Yes’

open access: yesActa Psychologica, 2022
In numerical processing, the functional role of Spatial-Numerical Associations (SNAs, such as the association of smaller numbers with left space and larger numbers with right space, the Mental Number Line hypothesis) is debated.
A. Miklashevsky   +2 more
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Space-valence mapping of social concepts: Do we arrange negative and positive ethnic stereotypes from left to right?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
IntroductionThe body-specificity hypothesis states that in right-handers, positive concepts should be associated with the right side and negative concepts with the left side of the body.
K. Kühne, K. Nenaschew, A. Miklashevsky
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The Force of Numbers: Investigating Manual Signatures of Embodied Number Processing

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
The study has two objectives: (1) to introduce grip force recording as a new technique for studying embodied numerical processing; and (2) to demonstrate how three competing accounts of numerical magnitude representation can be tested by using this new ...
Alex Miklashevsky   +2 more
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