The opera Death and the Powers by Tod Machover tells the story of a man, Simon Powers, who evades death by transferring his essence into his environment as his corporeal body dies. To realize the effect of the theatrical environment coming alive as the main character, the Opera of the Future research group at the MIT Media Lab developed new technologies and control systems for interactive robot...

Leman’s latest book is a refreshing treatment for the traditional (by which I mean: disembodied) cognitive science of music. What is more, the book serves as a starting point of an almost natural (given the recent variety of empirical data from empirical musicology and the studies on musical gestures, musical movement and the biomechanics of the body) application of the paradigm of embodied cog...

From the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field of Cognitive Science. The idea of embodied cognition entered the field of Cognitive Linguistics at its beginning in 1975. Since then, cognitive linguists, working with neuroscientists, computer scientists, and exp...

Previous research provides evidence for a dissociable embodied route to spatial perspective-taking that is under strategic control. The present experiment investigated further the influence of strategy on spatial perspective-taking by assessing whether participants may also elect to employ a separable "disembodied" route loading on inhibitory control mechanisms. Participants (N = 92) undertook ...

The concept of “good and bad deaths” has been widely addressed in the literature. However, little is known undergraduate nursing students' experiences with death clinical practice or how they perceive good deaths. To explore personal professional/clinical dying. A qualitative narrative inquiry design. Eighteen third year Bachelor Nursing students participated study. Data was collected through i...

This paper studies the impact of long-run productivity growth on job …nding and separation rates, and thus the unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into the endogenous job separation model of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). The incorporation of on-the-job search allows faster growth to reduce unemployment ...

We examined the efficacy of embodied learning for augmenting leader psychological capital—a latent construct reflecting hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resilience. To do so, we leveraged literature on cognition challenge-hindrance stressor framework to better understand how involving both body mind during (i.e., learning) can lead heightened perceptions challenge stressors, which then result...