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 ...

Recently, some authors have begun to raise questions about the potential unity of 4E (enactive, embedded, embodied, extended) cognition as a distinct research programme within cognitive science. Two tensions, in particular, have been raised: (i) that the body-centric claims embodied cognition militate against the distributed tendencies of extended cognition and (ii) that the body/environment di...

Embodied intelligence is the computational approach to the design and understanding of intelligent behavior in embodied and situated agents through the consideration of the strict coupling between the agent and its environment (situatedness), mediated by the constraints of the agent’s own body, perceptual and motor system, and brain (embodiment). The emergence of the field of embodied intellige...