Embodied cognition

Foglia, Lucia; Wilson, Robert A.

doi:10.1002/wcs.1226

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“…Thus, the findings support the second hypothesis that the human brain directly couples sensory recognition and motor actions rather than sequentially separating them. Our findings are compatible with alternative frameworks like embodied cognition 8 , sensorimotor contingency 19 , and common coding 13 . However, we also have found roughly as many Motor and Sensory ICs as Sensorimotor ICs.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Embodied cognition 8 supports the ideas that perception guides motor actions, motor actions influence perception, and brain concepts are fundamentally grounded in both perception and action 9 . This framework is supported by experimental findings of action intentions influencing visual processing 10 , motor-visual attentional priming 11 , and visuo-motor priming 12 .…”

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confidence: 80%

“…We also do not know the precise properties of such ICs within the frameworks of embodied cognition 8 , sensorimotor contingency 19 , and common coding 13 . If sensorimotor functional modules (represented by Sensorimotor ICs in the study) form a complex and distributed structure then the generation of more complex higher-order electric fields, e.g., a quadrupole, is possible.…”

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confidence: 99%

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EEG correlates of sensorimotor processing: independent components involved in sensory and motor processing

Melnik

Hairston

Ferris

et al. 2017

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Sensorimotor processing is a critical function of the human brain with multiple cortical areas specialised for sensory recognition or motor execution. Although there has been considerable research into sensorimotor control in humans, the steps between sensory recognition and motor execution are not fully understood. To provide insight into brain areas responsible for sensorimotor computation, we used complex categorization-response tasks (variations of a Stroop task requiring recognition, decision-making, and motor responses) to test the hypothesis that some functional modules are participating in both sensory as well as motor processing. We operationalize functional modules as independent components (ICs) yielded by an independent component analysis (ICA) of EEG data and measured event-related responses by means of inter-trial coherence (ITC). Our results consistently found ICs with event-related ITC responses related to both sensory stimulation and motor response onsets (on average 5.8 ICs per session). These findings reveal EEG correlates of tightly coupled sensorimotor processing in the human brain, and support frameworks like embodied cognition, common coding, and sensorimotor contingency that do not sequentially separate sensory and motor brain processes.

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Hairston

Ferris

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“…Notions of embodied cognition (for reviews see Foglia and Wilson 2013;Glenberg et al 2013) formed the final body of scholarship identified by Paas and Sweller (2012) as productive for an evolutionarily informed cognitive load theory. Research has shown that gesturing has a fundamental impact on a range of educationally relevant cognitive functions (for reviews see Goldin-Meadow 2011;Hostetter 2011).…”

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Giving Learning a Helping Hand: Finger Tracing of Temperature Graphs on an iPad

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Gesturally controlled information and communication technologies, such as tablet devices, are becoming increasingly popular tools for teaching and learning. Based on the theoretical frameworks of cognitive load and embodied cognition, this study investigated the impact of explicit instructions to trace out elements of tablet-based worked examples on mathematical problem-solving. Participants were 61 primary school children (8-11 years), who studied worked examples on an iPad either by tracing temperature graphs with their index finger or without such tracing. Results confirmed the main hypothesis that finger tracing as a form of biologically primary knowledge would support the construction of biologically secondary knowledge needed to understand temperature graphs. Children in the tracing condition achieved higher performance on transfer test questions. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.

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“…Carolan, 2009;Freiler, 2008;Foglia & Wilson, 2013;Macintyre Latta & Buck, 2008). This literature offers a wide range of definitions for 'bodily/body/embodied/ corporeal knowledge'.…”

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confidence: 99%

Bodily knowledge beyond motor skills and physical fitness: a phenomenological description of knowledge formation in physical training

Parviainen

Aromaa

2015

Sport, Education and Society

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Bodily knowledge has attracted significant attention within the humanities and other related fields over the last two decades. Although theoretical discussion on bodily knowledge in the context of physical education has been active over the past 10 years, these discussions lack clear conceptual analyses of bodily knowledge. Using a phenomenological approach, the purpose of this paper is to clarify the notion of bodily knowledge, furthering epistemological discussions of the topic within reflective, embodied practices. Instead of seeing bodily knowledge inherently connected to the acquisition of motor skills or improving physical fitness, we will discuss physical training as a reflective, embodied process that can turn sensuous information about the moving body into knowledge. Using outdoor running as an example, we describe the process of forming bodily knowledge, which includes: (1) the exploring and identifying of movement qualities, (2) developing capabilities of registering changes in the body and (3) directing and modifying one's own training processes based on bodily findings. Contextualizing this epistemological discussion with adults' recreational physical activity, this paper argues that bodily knowledge can cultivate individuals to trust their own body awareness and embodied responses to take more responsibility for their own physical exercise. When biomedical knowledge of the body in sport sciences tends to shrink the body to physiological attributes, such as muscle mass and fat percentage, our analysis stresses the agency of the lived body as a source of knowledge in physical activity.

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Embodied cognition

Cited by 225 publications

References 55 publications

EEG correlates of sensorimotor processing: independent components involved in sensory and motor processing

EEG correlates of sensorimotor processing: independent components involved in sensory and motor processing

Giving Learning a Helping Hand: Finger Tracing of Temperature Graphs on an iPad

Bodily knowledge beyond motor skills and physical fitness: a phenomenological description of knowledge formation in physical training

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