Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
EMBODIED COGNITION
Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind,
philosophyofpsychologyandcognitivescience.TheRoutledgeHandbookofEmbodiedCognitionis
an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and debates in this
exciting subject and essential reading for any student and scholar of philosophy of mind and
cognitive science.
Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is
divided into six parts:
(cid:1) Historical underpinnings
(cid:1) Perspectives on embodied cognition
(cid:1) Applied embodied cognition: perception, language, and reasoning
(cid:1) Applied embodied cognition: social and moral cognition and emotion
(cid:1) Applied embodied cognition: memory, attention, and group cognition
(cid:1) Meta-topics.
The early chapters of the Handbook cover empirical and philosophical foundations of embodied
cognition,focusingonGibsonianandphenomenologicalapproaches.Subsequentchapterscover
additional, important themes common to work in embodied cognition, including embedded,
extended and enactive cognition as well as chapters on embodied cognition and empirical
researchinperception,language,reasoning,socialandmoralcognition,emotion,consciousness,
memory, and learning and development.
Lawrence Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin –
Madison,USA.Hehasauthoredmanyarticlesspanningtherangeofphilosophyofpsychology.
His most recent book, Embodied Cognition (Routledge, 2011), won the American Philosophical
Association’s Joseph B. Gittler award in 2013.
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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF EMBODIED
COGNITION
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations ix
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
Lawrence Shapiro
PARTI
Historical underpinnings 7
1 Phenomenology and embodied cognition 9
Shaun Gallagher
2 A ten commandments for ecological psychology 19
Claire F. Michaels and Zsolt Palatinus
PARTII
Perspectives on embodied cognition 29
3 Extended cognition 31
Ken Aizawa
4 Complex dynamical systems and embodiment 39
Michael J. Richardson and Anthony Chemero
5 The role of the motor system in cognitive functions 51
Laila Craighero
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6 Embedded and situated cognition 59
Michael Dawson
7 The enactive approach 68
Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson
PARTIII
Applied embodied cognition: perception, language,
and reasoning 79
8 Music perception and embodied music cognition 81
Marc Leman and Pieter-Jan Maes
9 Enactive vision 90
Erik Myin and Jan Degenaar
10 Perception and/for/with/as action 99
Cedar Riener and Jeanine Stefanucci
11 Bodily relativity 108
Daniel Casasanto
12 Embodiment and language comprehension 118
Michael P. Kaschak, John L. Jones, Julie Carranza, and Melissa R. Fox
13 Embodiment and language 127
Claudia Scorolli
14 Linking words to world: an embodiment perspective 139
Chen Yu
15 Gesture in reasoning: an embodied perspective 150
Martha W. Alibali, Rebecca Boncoddo, and Autumn B. Hostetter
16 The embodied dynamics of problem solving: new structure
from multiscale interactions 160
James A. Dixon, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, and Jason Anastas
17 Grounded mathematical reasoning 171
Mitchell J. Nathan
18 Embodied interaction, coordination and reasoning
in computer gameplay 184
Tarja Susi
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PARTIV
Applied embodied cognition: social and moral cognition
and emotion 195
19 Embodied cognition and theory of mind 197
Shannon Spaulding
20 The embodiment of culture 207
Tamer Soliman and Arthur M. Glenberg
21 Morality in the body 220
Brendan Strejcek and Chen-Bo Zhong
22 Body and emotion 231
Michelle Maiese
23 Embodied emotion concepts 240
Paula Niedenthal, Adrienne Wood, and
Magdalena Rychlowska
24 Embodiment in the construction of emotion experience
and emotion understanding 250
Suzanne Oosterwijk and Lisa Feldman Barrett
PARTV
Applied embodied cognition: memory, attention,
and group cognition 261
25 Visual experience 263
Michael Madary
26 First-order embodiment, second-order embodiment,
third-order embodiment 272
Thomas Metzinger
27 Acting for bodily awareness 287
Frédérique de Vignemont
28 Memory and action 296
Katinka Dijkstra and Rolf A. Zwaan
29 The embodiment of attention in the perception-action loop 306
Michael J. Spivey and Stephanie Huette
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30 Embodied remembering 315
John Sutton and Kellie Williamson
31 Embodiment, cognition and the World Wide Web 326
Paul R. Smart
32 The constitution of group cognition 335
Gerry Stahl
33 Varieties of group cognition 347
Georg Theiner
PARTVI
Meta-topics 359
34 Cognition 361
Gary Hatfield
35 Revolution, reform, or business as usual? The future prospects
for embodied cognition 374
Michael Wheeler
Index 384
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
4.1 Categorical and continuous recurrence analysis 42
4.2 Example geometric and temporal fractal patterns 43
4.3 Examples of time series composed of random variation and fractal
variation and the associated log-log spectral plots 44
7.1 A schematic illustration of the concept of operational closure 70
8.1 Music perception as embodied cognition 84
14.1 Overview of embodied social interaction 141
14.2 A multisensory system to collect multimodal data from
child-parent interaction 142
14.3 Mean object size for the named target, and for other objects in child’s
and parent’s head-camera images during the naming event 144
14.4 Mean percentage of frames in which the parent or child was holding
the named object or another object 145
14.5 Mean percentage time with position and orientation head movements 146
14.6 Four hypotheses on child’s interest, learning and sensorimotor behaviors 148
16.1 Card-sorting task 164
16.2 Hurst exponents over time during card sorting 166
16.3 An example gear-system problem 167
16.4 Power-law exponents over trials for the gear task 169
17.1 Neuroimaging (fMRI) data showing dissociation during exact and approximate
calculations 175
17.2 Participants perform relevant or irrelevant actions for the triangle task 178
18.1 The game is controlled through hand-held devices and a step platform 186
18.2 Players cooperating to extinguish the fire 187
18.3 Player 2 has just grabbed a rat by its tail and is lifting it up in the air 189
18.4 Player 2 holds the control device as if holding the rat by the tail 190
18.5 The players synchronize and align body movements and virtual elements 191
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