Embodied cognition is a theoretical stance which postulates that sensory and motor experiences are key parts of the representation of our knowledge. This view has challenged the longstanding assumption that knowledge is represented abstractly in an amodal conceptual network. There now exist a large number of interesting and intriguing demonstrations of embodied cognition. Examples include chang...

The thesis of embodied cognition has developed as an alternative to the view that cognition is mediated, at least in part, by symbolic representations. A useful testing ground for the embodied cognition hypothesis is the representation of concepts. An embodied view of concept representation argues that concepts are represented in a modality-specific format. I argue that questions about represen...

Lawrence Shapiro’s Embodied Cognition is one of the first detailed book length attempts to introduce and develop the central themes of embodied cognition, an important trend in cognitive science. Embodied cognition is increasingly influential, but it would be a mistake to characterize it as a rigidly defined and unified theory. It emerged from a variety of fields (e.g., the phenomenological mov...

In contrast to traditional views of the mind as an abstract information processor, recent theories of embodied cognition suggest that our representations of objects and events are grounded in action. In this review, I document recent behavioral and neuropsychological evidence in support of an embodied viewpoint, and I argue that sensorimotor experience plays a pivotal role in the embodied cogni...

13.1 Abstract We discuss the possibility and the meaning of the claim that plants are cognitive from the perspective of Embodied Cognition. In Embodied Cognition, the notion of cognition can be interpreted very broad and applies to many free-moving creatures. In this chapter, we discuss whether and, if so, how this approach applies to intelligence in plants. Building on work from ‘plant neurobi...

(2014) The thinking hand: Embodiment of tool use, social cognition and metaphorical thinking and implications for learning design. Introduction In this paper we present an evolutionary and embodied account for the co-emergence of diverse skills central to our thinking and discuss implications for learning design. Our goal is to provide a connected picture for embodied cognition that spans acros...

1 Embodied Cognition Lab, Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2 Embodied Cognition Lab, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 3 Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 4 School of Psychological Sciences, Uni...

Replies to comments by A. M. Glenberg (see record 2015-22897-006) on the author's original article (see record 2015-22897-004) on the embodied cognition debate. The core issue at stake in the debate is whether the format of thought is amodal or modality-specific. In his paper, Glenberg argues that "embodied systems do just fine accounting for perception, action, concrete cognition, and abstract...

Without widely accepted and acceptable characterisations of what is to be meant by the terms cognition and embodiment, to ask what the role of embodiment in cognition is remains an illformed question. The connection between cognition and physical embodiment is however an important issue, and investigating it may well bring some enlightenment to the concepts of cognition and embodiment. In this ...