Editorial: Experimental approach to embodied cognition

The Bodily Formats Approach to Embodied Cognition

Chapter Overview In the past few decades, many practitioners of cognitive science and philosophy of mind have staked out programs and positions under the label of " embodied cognition " (EC). They have widely differing views, however, of what embodiment consists in and why a program of embodied cognition might be an improvement over classical cognitivism. Frederique de Vignemont and I have rece...

kant on the embodied cognition

Editorial: Dynamics of Sensorimotor Interactions in Embodied Cognition

The concept of incorporating the current situation and the body state within cognitive processes, referred to as embodiment, has revolutionized cognitive research (Glenberg et al., 2013). Interest in this approach has grown substantially in the last few decades. Embodied cognition has now been demonstrated across a wide range of topics, from babies (e.g., Smith and Gasser, 2005) to elderly adul...

Reenactment: An embodied cognition approach to meaning and linguistic content

A central finding in experimental research identified with Embodied Cognition (EC) is that understanding actions involves their embodied simulation, i.e. executing some processes involved in performing these actions. Extending these findings, I argue that reenactment – the overt embodied simulation of actions and practices, including especially communicative actions and practices, within uttera...

A Philosophical Approach to Embodied Cognition through Mirror Neuron System

In our day-to-day lives we are constantly exposed to the actions of other individuals who inhabit the social world. We not only experience their behavior, understand its contents and anticipate their consequences, but also we can do much more than that: we can attribute intentions to others and recognize immediately if their behavior is the result of an objective and a deliberative attitude or ...