Concept
Embodied cognition
Overview
Embodied cognition represents a diverse group of theories which investigate how cognition is shaped by the bodily state and capacities of the organism. These embodied factors include the motor system, the perceptual system, bodily interactions with the environment (situatedness), and the assumptions about the world that shape the functional structure of the brain and body of the organism. Embodied cognition suggests that these elements are essential to 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 embodied mind thesis challenges other theories, such as cognitivism, computationalism, and Cartesian dualism. 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.
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But the movements which are thus excited in the brain by the nerves variously affect the soul or mind, which is intimately conjoined with the brain, according to the diversity of the motions themselves. And the diverse affections of the mind or thoughts that immediately arise from these motions, are called perceptions of the senses (SENSUUM PERCEPTIONES), or, as we commonly speak, sensations (SENSUS). CXC. Of the…
René Descartes, Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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In wild animals, the usual round of daily behavior seems a necessity implanted at birth; in animals domesticated, and especially in man, it seems, to a great extent, to be the result of education. The habits to which there is an innate tendency are called instincts; some of those due to education would by most persons be called acts of reason. It thus appears that habit covers a very large part of life, and that one…
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
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To control inference it is necessary to analyze this complex situation--to determine what is data for inference and what is irrelevant. This analysis involves discriminative resolution into more ultimate simples. The resources of experimentation, all sorts of microscopic, telescopic, and registering apparatus, are called in to perform that analysis. As a result we differentiate not merely visual data from…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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Philosophers who discussed Embodied cognition
- Gilbert Ryle
- Shaun Gallagher
- Mark Johnson (philosopher)
- Jakob Johann von Uexküll
- Michel Henry
- John Russon
Related ideas
- Emotion
- Eleanor Rosch
- Cognition
- Artificial intelligence
- Mirror neuron
- Philosophy
- Problem solving
- John Dewey
- Vitalism
- Paradigm
- Mind–body dualism
- Music
- Gerald Edelman
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Neuroplasticity
- Conformity
- Hypothesis
- Neuron
- Neuroscience
- Visual perception
- Qualia
- Understanding
- Linguistics
- Psychology
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Andy Clark
- Autopoiesis
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Computational theory of mind
- Eleanor Rosch
- Episodic memory
- Hans Moravec
- Mental image
- Mirror neuron
- Neuroplasticity
- Problem solving
- Rodney Brooks
- Social cognition
- Social psychology
- Working memory
- Affordance
- Implicit memory
- Prototype theory
- 4E cognition
- Phenomenology of Perception
- Recall (memory)
- Extended mind thesis
- Where Mathematics Comes From
- Neurophenomenology