Constraining Theories of Embodied Cognition

Constraining theories of embodied cognition.

Influences of perceptual and motor activity on evaluation have led to theories of embodied cognition suggesting that putatively complex judgments can be carried out using only perceptual and motor representations. We present an experiment that revisited a movement-compatibility effect in which people are faster to respond to positive words by pulling a lever than by pushing a lever and are fast...

kant on the embodied cognition

Six Views of Embodied Cognition Six Views of Embodied Cognition

kant on the embodied cognition

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Embodied Cognition as Interactive Cognition

What abstract conditions concerning embodiment are necessary, together with formal conditions, for a specification of sufficient conditions for cognition? A material environment does more than realise one formal specification. There is no one base specification on which all the formal specifications that it realises supervene. Thus a relationship with a material environment may defy comprehensi...