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 one type of thought or another: It is cognition.
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- Few Believe the World Is Flat: How Embodiment Is Changing the Scientific Understanding of Cognition
- Glenberg, Arthur (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1037/cep0000056
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Glenberg, Arthur M. (2015). Few Believe the World Is Flat: How Embodiment Is Changing the Scientific Understanding of Cognition. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE, 69(2), 165-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cep0000056