#embodiedcognition — Public Fediverse posts

RESEARCH REPORT

“Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking”
by Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz

Walking is not merely a pause before thinking. Sometimes it is the condition under which thinking changes shape.

#CreativeThinking #DeliberatePractice #EmbodiedCognition

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf

COGNITIVE SCIENCE: A NARRATIVE OF DISCONNECTIONS

Cognitive science explores how we think, remember, and learn. New ideas like embodied cognition focus on the body's role in thinking.

#CognitiveScience, #EmbodiedCognition, #Neuroscience, #HowWeThink, #MindResearch

https://newsletter.tf/cognitive-science-how-our-bodies-help-us-think/

The field of cognitive science is changing. New ideas like embodied cognition, which says our bodies help us think, are becoming important.

#CognitiveScience, #EmbodiedCognition, #Neuroscience, #HowWeThink, #MindResearch
https://newsletter.tf/cognitive-science-how-our-bodies-help-us-think/

Today's "Brain Snack": How the mind and body are connected and some surprising results with regard to depressive symptoms!

"How Your Body Influences Your Wandering Mind"

https://open.substack.com/pub/leadingbrainsreview/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#brain #neuroscience #brainbody #embodiedcognition #depression

Handys befriedigen unser Bedürfnis, etwas mit den Händen zu machen

https://weltenkreuzer.de/handys-befriedigen-unser-beduerfnis-etwas-mit-den-haenden-zu-machen/

Having just undergone foot #surgery, I'd say yes -

Nike Says Its New Shoes Can Alter Your Mind. A Neuroscientist Weighs in. https://www.sciencealert.com/nike-says-its-new-shoes-can-alter-your-mind-a-neuroscientist-weighs-in

#bunions #embodiedcognition #somatosensorycortex #proprioception #cognitiveload

The Role of Prior Knowledge in Effects of Embodied Pedagogies on Learning: https://osf.io/qyjp9
"learners with lower prior knowledge, because they lack the foundational understanding needed to make sense of abstract representations, benefit from actively performing actions. In contrast, learners who have higher prior knowledge will learn better from observing actions as it enables more opportunity for connection-making and transfer."
#STEMeducation #EdPsy #EmbodiedCognition

## Embodied Cognition
**Subtitle:** The brain doesn’t think alone.

Thought is movement.
A tense jaw narrows perception; a slow breath widens it.
Our nervous systems write memory in muscle and rhythm,
long before language files the report.

To feel again is to know again.
Accessibility isn’t accommodation—it’s architecture.
Feeling is data.

Full essay → https://megan.madamgreen.xyz/embodied-cognition

#CognitiveCulture #EmbodiedCognition #Accessibility #MeganWrites

Okay, this is a long and meandering post: Deconstructing “What’s Worth Doing?” But, I use (and made!) lots and LOTS of pictures—30 pictures!! 🤪 This is me looking at *HOW* a specific learning card deck encourages and supports better thinking. And other ways this could have been done.

https://stephenanderson.medium.com/deconstructing-whats-worth-doing-723b06d35dbd

#CardGames #CardGame #CardDecks #play #EmbodiedCognition #cards #SeriousGames #learning #SelfReflection

LLMs lack bodies. Chemero (2023): Embodiment shapes human thought. Mice navigate via physical interaction (Shamash et al.). Can algorithms ever “understand” without senses, pain, or movement? Or is cognition inherently tied to flesh?
#EmbodiedCognition #AIlimitations #Neuroscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01723-5

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00230-1?uuid=uuid%3A67fc2509-9e44-4855-9b39-70fffdd1632c

I wrote a little something about WHY I care so much about "Playful Things to Think With"

https://stephenanderson.medium.com/why-i-believe-playful-things-to-think-with-can-change-the-world-a16202cfebca

#seriousgames #boardgames #embodiedcognition #collaboration

I am glad to let you known the #CLEA research group is hosting another online meeting on the foundations of #cognitivescience!

This time we will discuss the relation between the concept of #mentalrepresentation and #situatedness in #cognition and #embodiedcognition through the work of Gualtiero Piccinini (main speaker) and Marco Facchin (commentator).

To know more and register, please check:
https://clea.group

Hope to see you there!

@philosophy
@philosophyofmind

Full details of the new taught MA programme are now on @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social’s website at https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/study/postgraduate/ma/mind. #Philosophy #PhilMind #EmbodiedCognition #CognitiveScience

Excited to announce that from 2024/25, #UCD will offer a taught Masters programme in #PhilosophyOfMind and #EmbodiedCognition. In addition to a wide range of #philosophy modules, students can select options from UCD’s interdisciplinary #CognitiveScience programme. Email or message for details!

Awesome day 1 of Embodied Cognition and Learning class! We explored a network connecting us to theories and topics of interest and then discussed how embodying this with ourselves and balloons had different affordances than visualizing with software. #EmbodiedCognition #LearningSciences @learningsciences

Exciting new open access paper in ijcscl by led by Xintian Tu! We explore how gesture and embodiment are powerful communicative tools in a MR environment, and how some of these key embodiments carry over into interview contexts! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11412-023-09395-z @learningsciences #LearningSciences #EmbodiedCognition #MixedReality

Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition - free #ebook https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/embodied-and-enactive-approaches-to-cognition/FFAB4E136E12255CD3139A87ECB2DCAD
See also these encyclopedic entries on #Enactivism https://iep.utm.edu/enactivism/ and #EmbodiedCognition https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
#cognition @cogsci

Excellent article on the importance of retaining the feeling of self, heightened or lessened through the act of living with it, and as an image kept or lost.

Emotions and Consciousness Woven from the Self
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfilling-our-highest-possibility/202303/emotions-and-consciousness-woven-from-the-self

#StitchedInkMedia #Self #Individual #Flipboard #Psychology #Nature #Science #Biodiversity #Diversity #Philosophy #Emotions #Consciousness #EmbodiedCognition

New preprint with Rens van Hoef and Louise Connell

The effects of sensorimotor and linguistic information on the basic-level advantage.

Sensorimotor & linguistic distributional distance outperform discrete taxonomic levels.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7d8u6
#embodiedCognition #cognition #language

A recurring theme:

Do bad science, then tout the application of that bad science as a revolution in education.

"Embodied Cognition for Kids: Applying Principles of Embodiment to Education"
https://www.psychonomic.org/page/oneworld-glenberg

See also: #LearningStyles

#EmbodiedCognition

Recent server move means I have no post plugging my main project, so here it is!

Red Enlightenment: On #Socialism #Science and #Spirituality is 1) a book coming out in 2023 and 2) a scripted podcast which was the book's rough first draft https://soundcloud.com/repeater-radio/sets/red-enlightenment

For fans of #cybernetics #theology #LiberationTheology #ProcessThought #complexitytheory #ecology #marxism #acidcommunism #philosophyofscience #metaphysics #EmbodiedCognition #metamodernism @philosophy @theologidons

Hi folks!

I make #electronics and write code and help people solve interesting problems. I wrote a book on #LEGO and Arduino projects. I made a lot of open source hardware electronics kits (see Wayne and Layne), worked with Dessa, and am currently nerding out over #ActiveInference, #EmbodiedCognition, and #CognitiveNeuroscience. I write a bunch of code over at Beeminder, helping folks achieve their goals.

I love to #dance, read, and spend time with my wife and my two kids.

(8/8) Sorry to post such a long thread, but hopefully some interested academic-type people will read it! Here’s a concluding list of tags that give you an idea of the areas I do reading in in order to help formulate my ideas:

#Ecology #ComplexSystems #Emergence #Metaphor #EmbodiedCognition #Aesthetics #Gesture #Symmetry #CategoryTheory #QuantumTheory #Evolution #Relativity #Semiotics #ProcessPhilosophy #Pragmatism #Design #CareEthics #BuddhistStudies #Decoloniality #BlackFeminism

Does movement help students learn?

Specifically, do students learn more when THEY manipulate triangles than when their TEACHERS do so?

The field of #EmbodiedCognition is beginning to explore such questions.

Here's one example:

https://www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/does-movement-help-learning/

#EduMastodon #education #geometry #Math #Mathstadon #MBE

#Introduction

Hello! My name is Brett. I am a #ttrpg gamer. I began running #DnD in 1983 and since 2018 run #CastlesandCrusades campaigns with an emphasis on #folklore

I am academically trained in #Philosophy
My Ph.D. was on #Selfhood, drawing upon #Phenomenology and #EmbodiedCognition
My undergraduate work included #ClassicalCivilizations #Humanities and the #HistoryofScience

My gaming blog is: https://philosopherzeus.wordpress.com/blog/

My philosophy blog is: https://kraghdiacu.wordpress.com/blog/

Free #ebook: Movement Matters: How #EmbodiedCognition Informs #Teaching and #Learning https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5306/Movement-MattersHow-Embodied-Cognition-Informs See also: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.712626/full #EdResearch