TY - JOUR
T1 - Few Believe the World Is Flat
T2 - How Embodiment Is Changing the Scientific Understanding of Cognition
AU - Glenberg, Arthur
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Canadian Psychological Association.
PY - 2015/6
Y1 - 2015/6
N2 - Science has changed many of our dearly held and commonsensical (but incorrect) beliefs. For example, few still believe the world is flat, and few still believe the sun orbits the earth. Few still believe humans are unrelated to the rest of the animal kingdom, and soon few will believe human thinking is computer-like. Instead, as with all animals, our thoughts are based on bodily experiences, and our thoughts and behaviors are controlled by bodily and neural systems of perception, action, and emotion interacting with the physical and social environments. We are embodied; nothing more. Embodied cognition is about cognition formatted in sensorimotor experience, and sensorimotor systems make those thoughts dynamic. Even processes that seem abstract, such as language comprehension and goal understanding, are embodied. Thus, embodied cognition is not limited to 1 type of thought or another: It is cognition.
AB - Science has changed many of our dearly held and commonsensical (but incorrect) beliefs. For example, few still believe the world is flat, and few still believe the sun orbits the earth. Few still believe humans are unrelated to the rest of the animal kingdom, and soon few will believe human thinking is computer-like. Instead, as with all animals, our thoughts are based on bodily experiences, and our thoughts and behaviors are controlled by bodily and neural systems of perception, action, and emotion interacting with the physical and social environments. We are embodied; nothing more. Embodied cognition is about cognition formatted in sensorimotor experience, and sensorimotor systems make those thoughts dynamic. Even processes that seem abstract, such as language comprehension and goal understanding, are embodied. Thus, embodied cognition is not limited to 1 type of thought or another: It is cognition.
KW - cognitive neuroscience
KW - embodied cognition
KW - goals
KW - language
KW - perception and action
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U2 - 10.1037/cep0000056
DO - 10.1037/cep0000056
M3 - Article
C2 - 26010024
AN - SCOPUS:84944458875
SN - 1196-1961
VL - 69
SP - 165
EP - 171
JO - Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
JF - Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
IS - 2
ER -