A Lifespan Perspective on Embodied Cognition

A Lifespan Perspective on Embodied Cognition

Since its infancy embodied cognition research has fundamentally changed our understanding of how action, perception, and cognition relate to and interact with each other. Ideas from different schools of thought have led to controversial theories and a unifying framework is still being debated. In this perspective paper, we argue that in order to improve our understanding of embodied cognition a...

kant on the embodied cognition

Embodied and disembodied cognition: spatial perspective-taking.

Although people can take spatial perspectives different from their own, it is widely assumed that egocentric perspectives are natural and have primacy. Two studies asked respondents to describe the spatial relations between two objects on a table in photographed scenes; in some versions, a person sitting behind the objects was either looking at or reaching for one of the objects. The mere prese...

kant on the embodied cognition

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An Embodied/Grounded Cognition Perspective on Educational Technology

Students typically learn in school in ways that are disconnected to their own experience, and so they learn to know about subject areas rather than have a feel for them. Thus, what they learn in school becomes stored in memory as abstract symbolic knowledge that is not connected to their experience in the world, so they do not think to apply it in their everyday life (or other contexts) when it...