CSBBCS at Ryerson University and the embodied cognition debate.

The Explanation of effectiveness of student's lived experience in the architectural training process

Abstract: Architecture as a built environment has an important role in the quality of experience. Architecture experience is one of the educational strategies for knowing architecture. In some educational approaches, experience means observation, while based on the embodied cognition, environment experience is more than an observation. According to this approach, lived experience is deepest tha...

kant on the embodied cognition

Embodied Representation: What are the Issues?

A common theme of many discussions among embodied cognition researchers is whether or not cognition is making use of representations. This debate has recently been called a “debate for the sake of appearance” because there is no agreed upon way of identifying what is a representation. Therefore, instead of elaborating our own position on whether embodied cognition uses representation, we struct...

The Expert Patient: A New Approach to Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management based on Illness Perception and Embodied Cognition

Introduction: In new patient-training methods, the issue of patient empowerment has been presented which emphasizes the active role of patient in education and treatment. This study examined the impact of empowerment –based diabetes education (knowledge diabetes and embodied cognition) in promoting self-management behaviors in type 2 diabetic patients. Methods: This randomized clinical trial st...

Making Decisions does not Suffice for Minimal Cognition

In the early nineties, I stumbled upon Beer's Intelligence as adaptive behavior and I have been a fan of his work ever since. Beer has been one of the major players in developing a radical embodied, situated and dynamical perspective on cognition. In this radical perspective, the reciprocal relation between perception and action becomes the primary concern for cognitive theorizing, while the re...