Toward a Situated, Embodied Realism1

epresentation in dynamical and embodied cognition

The move toward a dynamical and embodied understanding of cognitive processes initiated a debate about the usefulness of the notion of representation for cognitive science. The debate started when some proponents of a dynamical and embodied approach argued that the use of representations could be discarded in many circumstances. This remained a minority view, however, and there is now a tendenc...

Embodied and Situated Cognition

Handbook Of Cognitive Science An Embodied Approach

Evan Thompson, PhD Context Matters: Steps to an Embodied Cognitive Science. is the author of Radical Embodied Cognitive Science and, with Stephan She takes an embodied approach to understanding perception, including a focus on Introduction The past decades Situated and Embodied Cognitive Science EMBODIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 5 of the Embodied Simulation approach (most T. Gomila (Eds.) Handbook of ...

Interfaces of social psychology with situated and embodied cognition

The recent rise of interest in situated and embodied cognition has a strong interdisciplinary flavor, with contributions from robotics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology, among other disciplines. However, social psychology has been almost completely unrepresented. Social psychologists investigate the ways people perceive, interact with, and influence eac...

The embodied and situated nature of computer game play

Computer games are being approached from a wide range of perspectives, but the activity of playing games, with the player and her actions in focus has, so far, not received much attention in academic research. Approaching games from a cognitive science perspective, however, it is argued in this paper that theories on embodied and situated cognition provide a strong basis for research on this pa...