The Mechanics of Embodiment: A Dialogue on Embodiment and Computational Modeling [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and motor experiences, and processed at this sensorimotor level, rather than ...
Giovanni Pezzulo +6 more
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Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Taste metaphors provide a rich vocabulary for describing emotional experience, potentially serving as an adaptive mechanism for conveying abstract emotional concepts using concrete verbal references to our shared ...
Jason A. Avery +3 more
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Action-Related Representations [PDF]
, 2020 Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still a matter of controversy.
Seuchter, Tim
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No Effect of Weight on Judgments of Importance in the Moral Domain and Evidence of Publication Bias from a Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In different cultures, people use the concept of weight to refer to important matters. Recent studies in grounded cognition suggested that experiences of weight affect unrelated judgments of importance in metaphor-congruent ways.
André L A Rabelo +3 more
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Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text
Research in Language, 2023 Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied aspects of Julian’s imagery.
Katarzyna Stadnik
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Challenges and Opportunities for Grounding Cognition
Journal of Cognition, 2020 According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment.
Lawrence W. Barsalou
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How Digital Food Affects Our Analog Lives: The Impact of Food Photography on Healthy Eating Behavior
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Obesity continues to be a global issue. In recent years, researchers have started to question the role of our novel yet ubiquitous use of digital media in the development of obesity.
Tjark Andersen +5 more
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Action-control mappings of interfaces in virtual reality: A study of embodied interaction
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 The development of interface technologies is driven by the goal of making interaction more positive through natural action-control mappings. In Virtual Reality (VR), the entire body is potentially involved for interaction, using such mappings with a ...
Martin Lachmair +3 more
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Elephant cognition in primate perspective [PDF]
, 2009 On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from other mammals, such as primates: discrimination learning, memory, spontaneous tool use, etc. However, a range of more naturalistic measures have recently
Lucy A. Bates +5 more
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Pleasure or Health? The Role of Mental Simulation in Desire and Food Choices
Foods, 2020 Many times, desire possesses us and impedes us from making healthier food choices. From a grounded cognition perspective, we investigated the role of two types of mental simulation (process and outcome) in desire and food choice to understand the ...
Naomí C. Muñoz-Vilches +2 more
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