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Embodied cognition

Embodied cognition is the concept suggesting that many features of cognition are shaped by the state and capacities of the organism. The cognitive features include a wide spectrum of cognitive functions, such as perception biases, memory recall, comprehension and high-level mental constructs (such as meaning attribution and categories) and performance on various cognitive tasks (reasoning or judgment). The bodily aspects involve the motor system, the perceptual system, the bodily interactions with the environment (situatedness), and the assumptions about the world built the functional structure of organism's brain and body.

The embodied mind thesis challenges other theories, such as cognitivism, computationalism, and Cartesian dualism.[1][2] It is closely related to the extended mind thesis, situated cognition, and enactivism. The modern version depends on understandings drawn from up-to-date research in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, dynamical systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, animal cognition, plant cognition, and neurobiology.

a special issue of Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts. Guest edited by Shaun Gallagher.

Volume 9, Issue 2 – Janus Head

from the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pdf)

Embodiment and Experientialism

– from an Artificial Intelligence perspective

Embodied Cognition: A Field Guide (pdf)

by Paul Dourish- for applications to human-computer interaction.

Where the Action Is

by Tim Rohrer

Pragmatism, Ideology, and Embodiment: William James and the Philosophical Foundations of Embodiment

Society for the Scientific Study of Embodiment

Embodied Cognition – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2001 Summary of how the embodiment hypothesis of cognitive linguistics has begun to interact with theories of embodiment in fields ranging from cognitive anthropology to cognitive neuroscience

Goddard College's Embodiment Studies Web Resources

Embodiment Resources – for those researching into embodiment, particularly as it relates to phenomenology, sociology and cognitive neuroscience.

Many references here to up to date research on embodiment and enaction

EUCog – European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics

Milestones:SHAKEY: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot, 1972

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