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In dynamic (social) environments, an affective state of “stress” can be adaptive and promote agent wellbeing, but maladaptive if not appropriately regulated.
Imran Khan +2 more
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Descriptions of pain, metaphor and embodied simulation. [PDF]
The variety of sensations conveyed by the English word pain tend to be described via expressions that refer to potential causes of bodily damage (e.g., stabbing, burning). Such expressions are used metaphorically when they convey pain experiences that do
Semino, Elena
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Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: Embodied Religiospiritual Cognition from an Attachment Viewpoint
In this conceptual paper, we suggest that attachment theory is a viable framework for understanding key aspects of embodied religious and spiritual cognition, as seen in religious and spiritual metaphors, rituals, anthropomorphisms, and more.
Anja L. Winter, Pehr Granqvist
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Consensus Paper: Situated and Embodied Language Acquisition
Theories of embodied cognition postulate that perceptual, sensorimotor, and affective properties of concepts support language learning and processing. In this paper, we argue that language acquisition, as well as processing, is situated in addition to ...
Lorraine D. Reggin +6 more
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Social allostasis is a mechanism of adaptation that permits individuals to dynamically adapt their physiology to changing physical and social conditions.
Imran Khan, Lola Cañamero
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The Effect of Physical Weight and Stimulus Spatial Location on Lexical Decision: Implications for Embodied Cognition [PDF]
Traditional models of cognition within cognitive psychology have utilised dualistic perspectives and largely ignored the roles of the motor systems and bodily experiences.
Priest, Lee David
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TEST: A Tropic, Embodied, and Situated Theory of Cognition [PDF]
TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness.
Fischer, M. +14 more
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A Robot Model of OC-Spectrum Disorders: Design Framework, Implementation, and First Experiments
Computational psychiatry is increasingly establishing itself as a valuable discipline for understanding human mental disorders. However, robot models and their potential for investigating embodied and contextual aspects of mental health have been, to ...
Matthew Lewis +2 more
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Embodiment, Cognition and the World Wide Web
Cognitive embodiment refers to the hypothesis that cognitive processes of all kinds are rooted in perception and action. Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience revealed that the motor cortex, long confined to the mere role of action programming and ...
CRAIGHERO, Laila, Smart, Paul R
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Sensorimotor Contingencies as a Key Drive of Development: From Babies to Robots
Much current work in robotics focuses on the development of robots capable of autonomous unsupervised learning. An essential prerequisite for such learning to be possible is that the agent should be sensitive to the link between its actions and the ...
Lisa Jacquey +4 more
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