Embodied Cognition: Taking the Next Step

Embodied Cognition: Taking the Next Step

Recent years have seen a large amount of empirical studies related to "embodied cognition." While interesting and valuable, there is something dissatisfying with the current state of affairs in this research domain. Hypotheses tend to be underspecified, testing in general terms for embodied versus disembodied processing. The lack of specificity of current hypotheses can easily lead to an erosio...

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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Taking the Next Step: Building an Arabidopsis Information Portal