scholarly journals Stretching Detection: The Unique Selling Point of Embodied Cognitive Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Robert Hill
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Change Of Perspective ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Embodied Cognitive Science ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
Practical Implications

By contrast with classical approaches to cognitive science, embodied cognitive science is characterised by claims that cognition is the product of coordinated systems of distributed and decentralised cognitive resources, and that it is grounded in survival-oriented architectures. I suggest that these ideas derive from a deeper change of perspective from viewing the cognizer as a representer to that of a detector/actor. Unlike some of the more abstract issues considered by other theorists, this change in perspective has practical implications for the ways in which psychologists study and understand cognition. In particular, it raises the important question of how we are able to access information about unperceivable environments using mental machinery that is not primarily designed for that purpose. A framework for understanding cognition as ‘time/space stretching’ is presented and three strategies for enabling that stretching are described.

scholarly journals ABORDAGEM ANTIRREPRESENTACIONISTA DA CIÊNCIA COGNITIVA INCORPORADA

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (39) ◽  
pp. 515
Author(s):  
Kleber Bez Birolo Candiotto
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Embodied Cognitive Science ◽  
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a postura antirrepresentacionista da abordagem incorporada da cognição em sua tentativa de fazer frente às possíveis limitações da ciência cognitiva clássica. Tal abordagem, propagada a partir da década de 1980, teve suas raízes na perspectiva ecológica de Gibson, com a noção de affordances, podendo uma versão mais acentuada ser identificada no texto Radical embodied cognitive science, de Chemero, em que o autor procura apontar a desnecessidade das representações mentais para a compreensão da cognição, tendo como apoio a noção de affordances, porém numa perspectiva distinta de Gibson. Ao apresentar a distinção conceitual de affordances entre os autores em questão, pretende-se, por fim, discutir a contribuição epistemológica da abordagem radical de cognição incorporada de Chemero para o futuro da ciência cognitiva.

scholarly journals A Brick-Sorting LEGO Robot

Eureka ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Arturo Pérez ◽  
Michael R. W. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Psychology Student ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology Student ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Embodied Cognitive Science ◽  
General Goal ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Biological Computation

Arturo Pe ́rez is a senior undergraduate psychology student at Universidad Diego Por-tales in Santiago, Chile. In the Fall term of 2012, Arturo spent 3 months at the Universi-ty of Alberta, hosted by Dr. Michael Dawson and the Biological Computation Project (BCP). The general goal of his visit was to establish collaborative ties between this U of A laboratory and the Centro de Estudios de la Argumentacio ́n y el Razonamiento (CEAR) at UDP. A more specific purpose was to explore the BCP’s approach to using simple robots to explore basic ideas in embodied cognitive science. Arturo’s explora-tions involved creating, programming, and testing a new robot designed to sort ele-ments in an arena. The purpose of the current paper is to report on Arturo’s robotics research at the BCP. 

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