scholarly journals Introduction to the special issue “embodied cognition and education”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evi Agostini ◽  
Denis Francesconi
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Educational Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Enactive Cognition

AbstractThis special issue focuses on the theoretical, empirical and practical integrations between embodied cognition theory (EC) and educational science. The key question is: Can EC constitute a new theoretical framework for educational science and practice? The papers of the special issue support the efforts of those interested in the role of EC in education and in the epistemological convergence of EC and educational science. They deal with a variety of relevant topics in education and offer a focus on the role of the body and embodied experience in learning and educational settings. In conclusion, some further topics are suggested that will need to be investigated in the future, such as a critical evaluation of the possibility for an epistemological alliance between educational theory and embodied cognition, and the contribution that enactive cognition can provide to educational systems, organizations, institutions and policies.

scholarly journals Introduction to Special Issue on Music and Embodied Cognition

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Kevin J Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Related Phenomenon ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Crucial Step

<p>THIS issue, broken into two volumes (Vol. 9, No. 3-4, 2014), offers a unique contribution to contemporary research on embodied approaches to music perception and related phenomenon.&nbsp; While the role of the body has often been acknowledged in a variety of disciplinary contexts, particularly in the domain of music performance, the 4E movement in cognitive science &ndash; i.e. interrelated paradigms that study cognitive processes as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended phenomenon - has pushed advances in previously underexplored areas.&nbsp; Critically analyzing the benefits (and limits) of embodied approaches to the perception of music and related artistic practices is a crucial step for expanding the conceptual and empirical foundations of the 4E movement, as well as addressing related concerns for musicologists and music scholars.</p>

scholarly journals Thinking embodiment with genetics: epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivism

Synthese ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Meloni ◽  
Jack Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Andy Clark ◽  
4E Cognition ◽  
Genomic Biology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epigenetic Research

AbstractThe role of the body in cognition is acknowledged across a variety of disciplines, even if the precise nature and scope of that contribution remain contentious. As a result, most philosophers working on embodiment—e.g. those in embodied cognition, enactivism, and ‘4e’ cognition—interact with the life sciences as part of their interdisciplinary agenda. Despite this, a detailed engagement with emerging findings in epigenetics and post-genomic biology has been missing from proponents of this embodied turn. Surveying this research provides an opportunity to rethink the relationship between embodiment and genetics, and we argue that the balance of current epigenetic research favours the extension of an enactivist approach to mind and life, rather than the extended functionalist view of embodied cognition associated with Andy Clark and Mike Wheeler, which is more substrate neutral.

scholarly journals What everybody knows: embodied information in serious leisure

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Cox ◽  
Brian Griffin ◽  
Jenna Hartel
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Serious Leisure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Behaviour

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the role of the body in information in serious leisure by reviewing existing work in information behaviour that theorises the role of the body, and by drawing selectively on literature from beyond information studies to extend our understanding. Design/methodology/approach After finding a lack of attention to the body in most influential works on information behaviour, the paper identifies a number of important authors who do offer theorisations. It then explores what can be learnt by examining studies of embodied information in the hobbies of running, music and the liberal arts, published outside the discipline. Findings Auto-ethnographic studies influenced by phenomenology show that embodied information is central to the hobby of running, both through the diverse sensory information the runner uses and through the dissemination of information by the body as a sign. Studies of music drawing on the theory of embodied cognition, similarly suggest that it is a key part of amateur music information behaviour. Even when considering the liberal arts hobby, the core activity, reading, has been shown to be in significant ways embodied. The examples reveal how it is not only in more obviously embodied leisure activities such as sports, in which the body must be considered. Research limitations/implications Embodied information refers to how the authors receive information from the senses and the way the body is a sign that can be read by others. To fully understand this, more empirical and theoretical work is needed to reconcile insights from practice theory, phenomenology, embodied cognition and sensory studies. Originality/value The paper demonstrates how and why the body has been neglected in information behaviour research, reviews current work and identifies perspectives from other disciplines that can begin to fill the gap.

scholarly journals Dancing dress: Experiencing and perceiving dress in movement

Scene ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Jessica Bugg
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Clothing Design ◽  
Physical Response ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Global Conference

Clothing design for dance is an area that has been little documented, particularly in relation to the experience and perception of the dancer. Contemporary dance and clothing can both be understood as fundamentally phenomenological and as such there is further potential to investigate the lived experience of wearing clothing in dance. This article approaches dress in the context of the moving and dancing body, and it aims to develop an understanding of the role of dress in dance by focusing on the sensory, embodied experience and perception of the performer. It addresses questions of how clothing is perceived in movement by the performer, how and if clothing’s design intention, materiality and form motivate physical response, and what conscious or unconscious cognitive processes may be at play in this interaction between the active body and clothing. The intention is to propose developed methods for designers across clothing disciplines to contribute in a meaningful way to the overall dance work. The article draws on an analysis of my practice-led research that employs embodied experience of dress to inform the design and development of clothing as communication and performance. The research has involved close collaboration with a dancer, analysis of recorded interviews, and visual documentation of design and movement. The research has produced data on the dancer’s experience and perception of garments in performance and this is discussed here in relation to writings on perception, performance, the body and cognition. The research is approached through theory and practice and draws on interviews, observation and lived experience. This article is developed from an earlier conference paper that investigated the role and developed potential of clothing in contemporary dance that was presented at the 4th Global Conference: Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, held in Oxford on 17–19 September 2013.

Beyond the Individual Body

Projections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-36
Author(s):  
Francesco Sticchi
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Enactive Cognition ◽  
Central Object ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Body ◽  
Viewing Experience

AbstractSince the emergence of embodied cognitive theories, there has been an ever-growing interest in the application of these theories to media studies, generating a large number of analyses focusing on the affective and intellectual features of viewers’ participation. The body of the viewer has become the central object of study for film and media scholars, who examine the conceptual physicality of the viewing experience by associating body states with parallel intellectual and moral constructions. In this article, I contribute to the study of embodied cognition and cinema by drawing upon Baruch Spinoza's philosophy, especially from his process-based notion of the body. I will put this ecological and dynamic concept of the body in connection with recent studies on enactive cognition, and define a radical enactivist approach to be applied in the discussion of the experiential dynamics of Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here.

scholarly journals Recovering the body in grief: Physical absence and embodied presence

2020 ◽  
pp. 136345932093191
Author(s):  
Caroline Pearce ◽  
Carol Komaromy
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Linear Stage ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Grief Theories

This paper addresses the complex issue of the embodiment of grief. It explores how a theoretical shift to the body has influenced scholarly literature about grief and bereavement. Despite this shift, we argue that bodily interpretations and experiences are undertheorised in western psychological literature on bereavement. Specifically, we argue that linear stage models of grief have encouraged the view that grief needs ‘working through’ in the mind, and not necessarily the body. We draw on empirical data from interviews with bereaved people undertaken in England to illustrate aspects of the embodied experience of grief that differ from how psychological grief theories conceive of the bereaved person’s body. Findings highlight the role of the bereaved person’s body in managing grief and how the absence and continuing presence of the deceased person is managed through embodied practices. We conclude that understanding grief as an embodied experience can enable the development of grief theories that better capture the complex negotiation between the psychological processes of grief and the materiality of bodies.

Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A British Sociologist's ViewVirginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis. Elizabeth AbelMelanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory. C. Fred AlfordThe Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination. Jessica BenjaminBetween Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Teresa BrennanFeminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. Nancy ChodorowPsychoanalysis and . . .Richard Feldstein , Henry SussmanThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West. Jane FlaxReturning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body. Naomi R. GoldenbergJacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction. Elizabeth GroszThe Mother-Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Marianne HirschLacan in Contexts. David Macey"Special Issue: Positioning Klein," Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 1990).The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis. Madelon SprengnetherReconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing. Jean WyattEssential Papers on the Psychology of Women. Claudia Zanardi

Signs ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 455-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Women's Reading

scholarly journals Connected with God: Body, the social, and the transcendent

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192
Author(s):  
Minna Opas ◽  
Anna Haapalainen
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Social Relatedness ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Examination

The special issue Connected with God: Body, the Social, and the Transcendent addresses the very topical question of the architecture of religious, especially Christian, experiences. Specifically, it examines the processes in which Christians experience the connection with, and gain knowledge of, God in and through the body, and, in particular, the role of social relatedness and morality in generating and informing these experiences. The issue challenges the view of an individual subjective relationship with God, and argues that Christian experiences of God’s presence are not solely a matter of an individual’s relationship with the divine but are very much made possible, guided, and conceptualised through corporeal relationships with social others – believers and other fellow-humans. Through detailed ethnographic and historical examination, the issue also addresses the question of whether and how the form of Christianity practised influences people’s experiences of divine presence.

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