Embodiment as a unifying perspective for psychology

By Thomas W. Schubert, Gün Refik Semin. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Immersive VR and Education: Embodied Design Principles That Include Gesture and Hand Controls (2018, background): “• Congruency ◦ The gesture/action should be congruent, i.e., it should be well-mapped, to the content being learned (Black et al., 2012; Johnson-Glenberg and Megowan-Romanowicz, 2017).”
How Teachers Link Ideas in Mathematics Instruction Using Speech and Gesture: A Corpus Analysis (2014, background): “, words and phrases) to objects, inscriptions, and locations in the physical world (Glenberg & Robertson, 1999). Speakers often use pointing gestures to index objects or inscriptions that are present in the socially shared environment. In addition, as noted above, speakers sometimes use pointing ges”
Getting the point: Tracing worked examples enhances learning (2015, background): “As discussed in Chapter Two, embodied cognition perspectives hold that human cognition is grounded in sensorimotor experiences gained from interactions between the body and the environment through human perceptual and motor systems (Barsalou, 1999; Glenberg, 2010; Wilson, 2002).”
Credit Assignment in Multiple Goal Embodied Visuomotor Behavior (2010, background): “It emphasizes that the brain cannot be understood in isolation as so much of its structure is dictated by the body it finds itself in and the world that the body has to survive in (Ballard et al., 1997b; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Barsalou, 2009; Glenberg, 2010).”
Embodied Enactive Dance/Movement Therapy (2011, background): “This paradigmatic shift is echoed in the suggestion that embodiment can serve as a unifying perspective for psychology ( Schubert & Semin, 2009 ).”
Embodiment in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Evidence From Learners' and Teachers' Gestures (2012, background): “But what does it mean for knowledge to be embodied? Although there is as yet no unified theory of embodiment (Barsalou, 2008), scholars of embodied cognition generally agree that mental processes are mediated by body-based systems, including body shape, movement, and scale; motor systems, including ”
Embodiment of cognition and emotion (2015, background): “…Paula Niedenthal, Joseph Wielgosz, Jiska Eelen, and Liam C. Kavanagh In recent years, embodiment theories have become a major conceptual framework for understanding the mind, including the social mind (Niedenthal, Barsalou, Winkielman, Krauth-Gruber, & Ric, 2005; Schubert & Semin, 2009).”