Many animals can be trained to perform novel tasks. People, too, can be trained, but sometime in early childhood people transition from being trainable to something qualitatively more powerful-being programmable. We argue that such programmability constitutes a leap in the way that organisms learn, interact, and transmit knowledge, and that what facilitates or enables this programmability is th...

Many objectification phenomena can be understood from a mind-body dualism perspective in which the more people focus on their bodies, the less they focus on their minds. Instead of viewing mind and body in opposition to each other, we advocate for a more reciprocal view in which mind and body work in conjunction. Consistent with an integrated mind-body approach, we begin our review by describin...

1 This is an extended version of the Opinion paper " The theory of event coding (TEC) as embodied-cognition framework " submitted to Frontiers in Cognition. 2 As common in the more lively phases of scientific disciplines, the key concept of this book and of this chapter—embodied cognition—is not very well defined. Wilson (2002) has identified no less than six different meanings the concept has ...

ideas too. Just watch teachers and students in a math classroom. Professors Martha Alibali and Mitchell Nathan have. They study how and why teachers and students use gestures to communicate mathematical concepts. From their perspective, mathematical knowledge doesn’t just reside in the mind. It’s embodied. Why is it important to know that mathematical knowledge is embodied? Nathan and Alibali s...

INTRODUCTION Barrett et al. (2014) argue that the primary contribution of evolutionary psychology (EP), as defined by the Santa Barbara school (Cosmides and Tooby, 1987; see also Laland and Brown, 2011) is the conception of the mind as a collection of separate, domain-specific mental modules that evolved to solve specific adaptive problems. This, they argue, means that EP does not represent a t...

Swiss school of modern psychology and apparently an unqualified admirer of its founder, Dr. C. G. Jung, her contribution to the study of the human mind embodied in her book, entitled " Collected Papers on the Psychology of Phantasy," deserves a very warm welcome. The first three chapters deal with problems connected with the psychology of children, and they will be found to contain a great deal...

In the last thirty years, a relatively large group of cognitive scientists have begun characterising the mind in terms of two distinct, relatively autonomous systems. To account for paradoxes in empirical results of studies mainly on reasoning, Dual Process Theories were developed. Such Dual Process Theories generally agree that System 1 is rapid, automatic, parallel, and heuristic-based and Sy...

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”,...

Improvisational actors create engaging vignettes in real time, without detailed planning, and often working within constraints provided by the audience. We are exploring the possibility of creating intelligent computer agents that can be embodied as animated characters, can perform in a manner loosely resembling that of human improvisors, and can tailor their performances to abstract directions...

Since the subordination of midwifery by medicine and nursing in the 19th and 20th centuries the standard approach to childbirth has been dominated by rationality. This approach proceeds by creating dichotomies and then prioritising one half of the dichotomy whilst rejecting the opposite term. Rationality itself is prioritised, for example, by contrasting it with the rejected opposite: irrationa...