Metaphorically, power equals up. Drawing on embodied theories of cognition, the author argues that thinking about power involves mental simulation of space and can be interfered with by perception of vertical differences. Study 1 assessed image schemas for power and found a shared vertical difference metaphor. Studies 2, 3, and 4 showed that the judgment of a group's power is influenced by the ...

Imitation is supposedly a fundamental mechanism for humans to learn new actions and to gain knowledge about another’s intentions. The basis of this behavior seems to be a direct influencing of the motor system by the perceptual system, affording fast, selective enhancement of a motor response already in the repertoire (response facilitation) as well as learning and delayed reproduction of new a...

Reacting to unpredictable situations is one of the main problems in technical automation. This article introduces two developed framework for decision units for embodied autonomous agents. The models are compared to an existing architecture, the BDI architecture. The basis of the described model is using psychoanalytical concepts. Drives, emotions and wishes are the basics that build a reaction...

I argue for a pattern theory of self as a useful way to organize an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of what constitutes a self. According to the pattern theory, a self is constituted by a number of characteristic features or aspects that may include minimal embodied, minimal experiential, affective, intersubjective, psychological/cognitive, narrative, extended, and situated aspects. A...

Recent theories of embodied cognition suggest new ways to look at how we process emotional information. The theories suggest that perceiving and thinking about emotion involve perceptual, somatovisceral, and motoric reexperiencing (collectively referred to as "embodiment") of the relevant emotion in one's self. The embodiment of emotion, when induced in human participants by manipulations of fa...

USING RADICAL EMBODIED COGNITIVE SCIENCE, THE PAPER OFFERS THE HYPOTHESIS THAT LANGUAGE IS SYMBIOTIC: its agent-environment dynamics arise as linguistic embodiment is managed under verbal constraints. As a result, co-action grants human agents the ability to use a unique form of phenomenal experience. In defense of the hypothesis, I stress how linguistic embodiment enacts thinking: accordingly,...

Dancers and dance philosophers report on experiences of a certain form sense making bodily thinking through the dancing body. Yet, discussions expertise consciousness are often framed within canonical philosophical world-views that make it difficult to fully recognize, verbalize, value full variety embodied affective facets subjectivity. Using qualitative interviews with five professional dance...

Studying complex systems is increasingly important in many domains. Several features shared by complex systems hinder deep understanding. For example, understanding complex systems involves thinking about multiple interdependent levels, non-linear causality and/or emergence. Conceptual representations offer opportunities to become integrating frameworks across different domains. This study inve...

Mobile maps show the current position of a map reader in their center. We will question this convention, which is in our opinion a relict from paper maps. We observe that, in contrast to paper maps, mobile maps have a narrower purpose and mobile devices have a different affordance and handling. This observation encourages thinking of a map design that allows an embodied experience of map readin...

Scientific knowledge-making is not just a matter of experiments, modelling and fieldwork. It also involves affective, embodied and material practices (Wetherell, 2012) which can be understood together as ‘matters of care’ (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011). In this paper we explore how affect spans and connects material, subjective and organizational practices, focusing in particular on the patterns ...