Embodiment is a multifaceted concept. We contribute to a clearer understanding of embodiment theories by suggesting three broad distinctions useful for comparing different approaches: whether they aim for experiential or objective accounts, focus on the body or the context, and whether emphasis lies on cognitive structure or practice. Author

Spatial thinking is a vital component of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum. However, to date, broad development of learning environments that target domain-specific spatial thinking is incomplete. The present article visits the problem of improving spatial thinking by first reviewing the evidence that the human mind is embodied: that cognition, memory, and knowled...

The aim of this article is to develop an interaction theory (IT) of social cognition. The central issue in the field of social cognition has been theory of mind (ToM), and there has been debate regarding its nature as either theory-theory or as simulation theory. Insights from phenomenology have brought a second-person perspective based on embodied interactions into the debate, thereby forming ...

The problems of conventional speech recognition approaches include incomplete linguistic knowledge and inability to deal with underspecification. These issues can be addressed by understanding the constraints of speech to predict speech tendencies. We believe that understanding what constraints exist requires an embodied view of speech and that the traditional disembodied view of speech is the ...

Traditional views of cognition have assumed that thought involves the representation and manipulation of discrete, amodal symbols, while embodied theories of cognition hold that thought is grounded in the same neural systems that govern sensation, perception and action. This paper examines whether implicit perceptual information on object colour is represented during sentence comprehension even...