Embodied cognition

Embodied cognition is the possibility of unification of neural networks in our brain and direct interaction with the physical world. The body contains, regulates, and shapes the nature of mental activity. Arthur Glenberg argues that our brains guide the body for interacting with the social world (1). When a situation arises, one must analyze and produce a solution given the abilities that the body can perform. For example, when a human is threatened by violence, they do not have a shell to shrink into for protection, whereas a turtle has a hard shell that can protect against most predators. Rather, humans must come up with a better answer to the problem, such as running or fighting. It is theorized our brains guide the body for interaction…

I, and it seems a lot of philosophers do as well, have a great deal of trouble with getting a handle on what Cognition is. René Descartes states that the mind is ultimately the bit that thinks about thinking, his oft quoted “I think therefore I am” is a case in point. I also think that to have cognition one must also have intentionality, in that something must drive or exist in the conscious that supports the thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes. This is what is missing from the aids to thought or…

The Effect of an Individual’s Mood on his or her Weather preferences People have always wondered how the body and mind interacted. Some people believe that they did not interact at all. For example, Plato believed that the mind and the body were two separate entities (University of Richmond Department of Psychology, 2015). However, recently, there is evidence that a person’s body does influence his or her cognition. It is known as Embodied Cognition, which is built off Metaphor theory. Metaphor…

Thought Hypothesis, wherein cognition involves the medium of representation, sharing its central properties with principles found in linguistics. I will then describe reasons for thinking that all of cognition is representational, focusing on Fodor 's processing argument, which is grounded on the nature of cognition, with its essential characteristics of productivity and systematicity. The cognitive act of rational choice and the requirements for such a capacity will also be examined.…

Post (2005) provides an overview of the complex approach to assessing the personalities of political leaders in hopes of developing an objective personality profile. The basic foundation involved in assessing a political personality combines identifying and evaluating the influence of key events and patterns in the individual's life chronology, a longitudinal analysis, and an in-depth examination of specific characteristics relevant to the role of a leader, a cross-sectional analysis (Post 2005,…

indeed inform and help in the formation, testing and refinement of cognitive theories. In another study (Wheeler, Petersen, & Buckner, 2000), fMRI data helped informed the theory of embodied cognition. Wheeler et al. found that the brain regions used during the encoding of visual and auditory stimuli are the same regions used to retrieve that information. As Wheeler said, “Therefore, results indicate that retrieval of vivid visual and auditory information can be associated with a reactivation…

were Neha P. Gothe from Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at Wayne State University, Arthur F. Kramer from Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and department of psychology at the University of Illinois, and Edward McAuley, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. This study took place at Wayne State University in the Division of Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies in Detroit Michigan. Background…

affect, not the processing of a belief experience. Propositional attitudes, or propositional intentional states, make up so much of our experience that it is at once easy to over prescribe their pervasiveness in regards to ourselves and the world, and to harbour a philosophical frustration with this constricting element of our first person experience that might tempt us to tear the entire notion asunder. Our impatience might demand unification, reduction or elimination but perhaps the answer…

What Motivates a Student? Motivation is the entire constellation of factors, some inside the organism and some outside, that cause an individual to behave in a particular way at a particular. A constant struggle for teachers and college professors is to get their students motivated to learn and for them to receive a high overall average letter grade in the class. In a journal written by Phyllis C. Blumenfeld called “Classroom Learning and Motivation: Clarifying and Expanding Goal Theory”…

Loss and grief can turn to madness if you let yourself explore your thoughts. One can become insane just by thinking about a once gloomy past. The terrors from before can haunt and make you see things which were not there last. Imagination starts to work and you’ve dug your hopes real fast. That’s exactly what this grieving narrator of “The Raven” had to bore. This was through the unexpected loss of his beloved Lenore. The narrator of “The Raven,” creates this frightening yet sophisticated bird,…