Theories of social surrogacy and embodied cognition assume that cognitive associations with nonhuman stimuli can be affectively charged. In the current research, we examined whether the "comfort" of comfort foods comes from affective associations with relationships. Two experiments support the hypotheses that comfort foods are associated with relationships and alleviate loneliness. Experiment 1...

Simulation theories of social cognition abound in the literature, but it is often unclear what simulation means and how it works. The discovery of mirror neurons, responding both to action execution and observation, suggested an embodied approach to mental simulation. Over the past few years this approach has been hotly debated and alternative accounts have been proposed. We discuss these accou...

Music semantics is embodied, in the sense that meaning biologically mediated by and grounded human body brain. This embodied cognition perspective also explains why music structures modulate kinetic somatosensory perception. We leverage this aspect of cognition, considering dance as a proxy for perception, statistical computational model learns semiotic correlations between audio video. evaluat...

1. Introduction Consciousness is trendy. It seems that more pages are published on consciousness these days than on any other subject in the philosophy of mind. Embodiment and situated cognition are also trendy. They mark a significant departure from orthodox theories, and are thus appealing to radicals and renegades. It's hardy surprising, then, that consciousness, embodiment and situated cogn...

Reflexivity lies at the heart of this thesis: I seek to understand to have knowledge of a particular way of knowing. There are echoes of this reflexivity in my literature review of embodied cognition, where I discussed attempts to think about how we think. This reflexive circle need not be 'vicious', in the sense of tying me into a knot of self-reference, if I apply the tools of phenomenology a...

Learning scientists are only beginning to appreciate the potential of synergy between two concurrent developments—theory of embodied cognition and technology of embodied interaction. We characterize and evaluate this prospective synergy from a sociocultural perspective. First we analyze learning in explicitly embodied cultural practices (e.g., surfing), then analogize to the implicitly embodied...

Embodied cognition is a concept that has been extensively explored by scholars within the Child–Computer Interaction community. However, there lack of synthesis this research to clarify field’s benefits and drawbacks. This paper presents survey articles published between 2010 2020 in Design Children (IDC) conference International Journal (IJCCI). We retrieved 158 papers using keyword ”embodied ...

I consider here some contemporary approaches to the live performance of computer music. Drawing upon ideas of the embodied mind and the extended mind, I will outline a theory of embodied listening which problematises some of our assumptions about music, gesture and performance. Against the background of this theory, I will argue against approaches which put too great a focus upon gestural legib...

This paper by Daum, Sommerville, and Prinz (2009) presents an intriguing theory of the development of social cognition, distinguishing early developing embodied processing, based on perception and production of bodily states, from lateremerging symbolic processing, based on language. While this distinction is discussed predominantly in relation to social understanding, it is broadly applicable ...

In this paper we present a cognitive robotic model of object manipulation (i.e. grasping) based on psychologically plausible embodied cognition principles. Specifically, the robotic simulation model is inspired by recent theories of embodied cognition, in which vision, action and semantic systems are linked together in a dynamic and mutually interactive manner. The robotic agent is based on a s...