Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone BS 193 "Embodied Mind:" What does this mean?
Feb 25, 2022
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Mind Is Embodied Process
- The mind is an embodied process arising from brain, body, and environment interaction.
- This embodied mind approach challenges the disembodied view of fixed, separate mental representations.
Key Themes of Embodied Cognition
- Embodied cognition sees body constraints as shaping concepts and cognition as continuous.
- The body's interaction with the environment replaces discrete symbolic representation in cognition.
Thinking Precedes Language
- Cognitive linguistics shows thinking and reasoning are based on pre-existing bodily capacities, not on language first.
- Because thinking precedes language, metaphors rooted in embodied experience shape cognition.