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In dance theory, choreographic writing (a form of embodied writing) is done by imagining words as dancing across a page. [5] Others use forms of yoga to more deeply connect the body to the writing. [6] Each of these practices aims to create more awareness of the sensation of the body in space and to think of writing as a physical act.
Embodied cognition is the concept suggesting that many features of cognition are shaped by the state and capacities of the organism. The cognitive features include a wide spectrum of cognitive functions, such as perception biases, memory recall, comprehension and high-level mental constructs (such as meaning attribution and categories) and performance on various cognitive tasks (reasoning or ...
Embodied theories of language comprehension assume that abstract concepts, as well as concrete ones, are grounded in the sensorimotor system [4] [14] Some studies have investigated the activation of motor cortices using abstract and also concrete verbs, examining the stimulation of the motor cortices when comprehending literal action verbs ...
Embodied cognition, a theory that many aspects of cognition are shaped by the body; Embodied cognitive science, seeks to explain the mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior; Embodied design, that the actions of the body can play a role in the development of thought and ideas; Embodied imagination, a therapeutic form of working with dreams ...
Articles relating to writing, a medium of human communication that involves the representation of a language with written symbols. Writing systems are not themselves human languages (with the debatable exception of computer languages); they are means of rendering a language into a form that can be reconstructed by other humans separated by time and/or space.
It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, [13] education [14] and the natural sciences. [15] 19th-century realism was in its turn a reaction to Romanticism, and for this reason it is also commonly derogatorily referred to as traditional or "bourgeois realism". [16]
Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition, [6] social cognition, agency and the philosophy of psychopathology.Since 2011, he has held the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis and was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation (2012–2018).
Embodiment theory speaks to the ways that experiences are enlivened, materialized, and situated in the world through the body.Embodiment is a relatively amorphous and dynamic conceptual framework in anthropological research that emphasizes possibility and process as opposed to definitive typologies. [1]