This commentary aims to find the right description of the pre-reflective brain mechanisms underlying our phenomenal experience of being a subject bound to a physical body (bodily self) and basic cognitive, perceptual, and subjective aspects related to interaction with other individuals (social cognition). I will focus on the proposal by Gallese and Cuccio that embodied simulation, in terms of m...

This paper discusses epistemological aspects of the new eld of embodied Artiicial Intelligence and its consequences for the study of cognition. It is argued that the new emphasis on bodily phenomena fundamentally changes the nature of cognitive theories and the way these theories are formed. This result is based on an analysis of conventional Cognitive Science methodology as it has been succinc...

The theory of embodied cognition postulates that the brain represents semantic knowledge as a function of the interaction between the body and the environment. The goal of our research was to provide a neuroanatomical examination of embodied cognition using action-related pictures and words. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine whether there were shared and/or unique ...

In this chapter we present our work on the elaboration of a contextually embodied agent. We define such an agent as an agent capable of planning what to communicate as well as deciding with which verbal and nonverbal signals to output considering contextual information. We first present our 3D facial model that follows MPEG-4 standard. Then we present our taxonomy of communicative facial expres...

When all the data and arguments are in, will the recent flurry of work in embodied cognition deliver a revolutionary paradigm shift in the sciences and philosophy of mind? Or will it be a case of business as usual in the mind-targeting laboratories and armchairs around the globe? Or is the most likely outcome a reformist tweak in which embodied cognition research is recognized as making genuine...

Scientists have traditionally limited the mechanisms of social cognition to one brain, but recent approaches claim that interaction also realizes cognitive work. Experiments under constrained virtual settings revealed that interaction dynamics implicitly guide social cognition. Here we show that embodied social interaction can be constitutive of agency detection and of experiencing another's pr...