Abstract Recent work has shown that ASL (American Sign Language) signers not only articulate the language in space front of and around them, they interact with bodily, such those interactions are frequently viewpointed. At a basic level, use their bodies to depict actions characters, either themselves or others, narrative retelling. These viewpointed instances seem reflect “embodied cognition”,...

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 ...

This paper examines two aspects of subjectivity-sexuality and singularity-that are considered fundamental to a modernist notion of the person. These aspects of subjectivity are under siege as new technologies of reproduction challenge our understanding of sexed bodies and as, simultaneously, a postmodern world-view brings forward the multiplicity of sexual subject positions and embodied hybridi...

Embodied cognition holds that abstract concepts are grounded in perceptual-motor simulations. If a given embodied metaphor maps onto a spatial representation, then thinking of that concept should bias the allocation of attention. In this study, we used positive and negative self-esteem words to examine two properties of conceptual cueing. First, we tested the orientation-specificity hypothesis,...

ABSTRACT The essay proposes a dialogue between feminist decolonial thinking and performance art, as they connect to my own experience in these fields. Based on the understanding that perspective puts all Western conceptual methodological categorizations under critical scrutiny, objective is advance discussion of by marginalized women, seeking understand their role production shared meanings thr...