Title: Dynamic Field Theory as a Framework for Understanding Embodied Cognition
Abstract: Embodied cognition is an approach to cognition that has roots in motor behavior. This approach emphasizes that cognition typically involves acting with a physical body on an environment in which that body is immersed. The approach of embodied cognition postulates that understanding cognitive processes entails understanding their close link to the motor surfaces that may generate action and to the sensory surfaces that provide sensory signals about the environment. To a certain extent, the embodiment stance implies a mistrust of the abstraction inherent in much information processing thinking, in which the interface between cognitive processes and their sensorimotor support is drawn at a level that is quite removed from both the sensory and the motor systems. New theoretical tools are needed to address cognition within the embodiment perspective. This chapter reviews one set of theoretical concepts which is believed to be particularly suited to address the constraints of embodiment and situatedness. It refers to this set of concepts as Dynamical Systems Thinking.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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