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...

Dynamical Systems thinking has been influential in the way psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists think about sensori-motor behavior and its development. The initial emphasis on motor behavior was expanded when the concept of dynamic activation fields provided access to embodied cognition. Dynamical Field Theory (DFT) offers a framework for thinking about representation-in-the...

“Dialectics” and “contradiction theory” from philosophy are almost the only theoretical resource that can be cited to explain reason for formation of Chinese antonymous cognate words. However, this paradigm does not come law thinking, therefore cannot display dynamic process phenomenon fundamentally. Metonymy metaphor could applied as thinking mechanisms reveal rules generation Briefly, mechani...

The article suggests a way to overcome two well-known problems of embodied/grounded theory cognition: the impossibility strict differentiating modal and amodal symbols, difficulty in defining abstract concepts/simulators (abstract lexical meanings). pro­posed functional approach is based on dichotomy 'perceptual (external) vs. (internal)' that goes back Ivan Sechenov. These cognitive units are ...

This paper is a meditation on the possibilities of walking performance as an embodied territorial acknowledgement. It discusses problems verbal or treaty acknowledgements, and asks whether acknowledgements might overcome those problems. settlers land can begin to enter into kinship relationship with it, they are locked scopophilic extractive ways experiencing therefore incapable seeing themselv...

Given the current validity and importance of Merleau-Ponty's reflection on matter corporality, his contribution is focused Phenomenology perception exposes because bind between ‘body’ ‘world’ to existential disposition as one that establishes significance psychological acts. The author aims keep thinking notion embodied subject way in which we bodily inhabit world thereafter conceptualization b...

In order to better understand how to design hands-on child-computer interaction, we explore how different styles of interaction facilitate children‟s thinking while they use their hands to manipulate objects. We present an exploratory study of children solving a spatial puzzle task. We investigate how the affordances of physical, graphical, and tangible interfaces may facilitate the development...

Many researchers have suggested that tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have potential for supporting learning. However, the theories used to explain possible effects are often invoked at a very broad level without explication of specific mechanisms by which the affordances of TUIs may be important for learning processes. Equally problematic, we lack theoretically grounded guidance for TUI designe...