The strong program in embodied cognitive science

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

Embodied cognitive science

The paper provides an introduction to the field of embodied cognitive science from a biological and behavioural perspective. We show how the field of neuro-ethology can help transform cognitive science from a representational to an embodied perspective. The transformation is necessary to introduce a bottom-up approach to understanding cognition in order to resolve some fundamental problems with...

An embodied cognitive science?

The last ten years have seen an increasing interest, within cognitive science, in issues concerning the physical body, the local environment, and the complex interplay between neural systems and the wider world in which they function. Yet many unanswered questions remain, and the shape of a genuinely physically embodied, environmentally embedded science of the mind is still unclear. In this art...

Mathematical Idea Analysis : What Embodied Cognitive Science

This article gives a brief introduction to a new discipline called the cognitive science of mathematics (Lakoff & Núñez, 2000), that is, the empirical and multidisciplinary study of mathematics (itself) as a scientific subject matter. The theoretical background of the arguments is based on embodied cognition, and on relatively recent findings in cognitive linguistics. The article discusses Math...

Handbook Of Cognitive Science An Embodied Approach

Evan Thompson, PhD Context Matters: Steps to an Embodied Cognitive Science. is the author of Radical Embodied Cognitive Science and, with Stephan She takes an embodied approach to understanding perception, including a focus on Introduction The past decades Situated and Embodied Cognitive Science EMBODIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 5 of the Embodied Simulation approach (most T. Gomila (Eds.) Handbook of ...