How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement

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Musical creativity and the embodied mind (2018, background): “This is to say that, when needed, tools and objects from the environment can become integrative parts of mental life and the creative processes that go along with it (see Malafouris, 2008, 2013, 2015).”
Extending mind, visuospatial integration, and the evolution of the parietal lobes in the human genus (2016, background): “…importance of the body, of the sensorimotor experience, and of the spatial structure in extended cognition (even when dealing with concepts related to chronological aspects and self awareness e Malafouris, 2013), the role of visuospatial integration in embodying capacity should not be undervalued.”
Thinking as “Thinging”: Psychology With Things (2019, background): “Material-engagement theory (Malafouris, 2013), the major postulates of which are summarized in Figure 1, builds on this long tradition and offers a new window into the study of human thought from the distinctive perspective of cognitive archaeology.”