scholarly journals Embodied Cognition in Performance: The Impact of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Exercises on Affect and Height Perception

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Hedberg Olenina ◽  
Eric L. Amazeen ◽  
Bonnie Eckard ◽  
Jason Papenfuss
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Height Perception ◽  
The Impact

Milton

Kinesic Humor ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Guillemette Bolens
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
John Milton ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Dynamic Gestures ◽  
The Impact

John Milton plays with his readers’ embodied cognition. Reading Paradise Lost triggers complex perceptual simulations that are fascinatingly conflicting at the level of sensorimotricity. The carefully crafted effects thus elicited lead to a possible experience of humor. Kinesic incongruities in Paradise Lost are studied in this chapter to show how critics and expert readers respond to them, and to suggest that such effects are correlated with Milton’s investment in the notion of free will. The fact that Milton was able to create suspense in a plot known by all is addressed in relation to surprisingly dynamic gestures and the impact they may have on the ways in which readers conceive of the Fall of humankind.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith H. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
The Impact

The introduction discusses the impact of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls on understanding the formation of scriptures in the Hellenistic-Roman period. Rather than focusing on the closure of the canon of the Hebrew Bible, this book assesses the processes by which texts become scripture. While the contemporary understanding of “liturgical” in Judaism and Christianity is related to formal fixed prayer, this study expands the concept of liturgical to include a range of practices around the study of sacred texts in Jewish antiquity. A traditioning process occurs through such practices of revelatory discernment in which scriptural interpretation is incorporated into texts which both sacralizes and extends them. The book’s methodological framework is rooted in embodied cognition and draws on insights from anthropology, ritual theory, memory studies, and neuroscience. A center of attention is the mediating role of the liturgical body in both an individual and corporate sense.

scholarly journals Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Dove ◽  
Laura Barca ◽  
Luca Tummolini ◽  
Anna M. Borghi
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Inner Speech ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Language System ◽  
The Impact

The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary debates in cognitive (neuro)science. In this paper we illustrate and compare two theories that offer embodied explanations of this role: the WAT (Words As social Tools) and the LENS (Language is an Embodied Neuroenhancement and Scaffold) theories. WAT and LENS differ from other current proposals because they connect the impact of the neurologically realized language system on our cognition to the ways in which language shapes our interaction with the physical and social environment. Examining these theories together, their tenets and supporting evidence sharpens our understanding of each, but also contributes to a better understanding of the contribution that language might make to the acquisition, representation and use of abstractconcepts. Here we focus on how language provides a source of inner grounding, especially metacognition and inner speech, and supports the flexibility of our thought. Overall, the paper outlines a promising research program focused on the importance of language to abstract concepts within the context of a flexible, multimodal, and multilevel conception of embodied cognition.

Music is in the Muscle: How Embodied Cognition May Influence Music Preferences

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Sedlmeier ◽  
Oliver Weigelt ◽  
Eva Walther
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Head Movements ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Music Preferences ◽  
Preference Ratings ◽  
Muscle Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Horizontal Head

Music is Intimately Connected with Body movements. Until recently, research has almost exclusively examined the impact of music on body movements. Yet findings on embodied cognition in other domains suggest that the influence might also work in the opposite direction: Real or imagined body movements during music listening may codetermine music preferences. We had participants listen to music and concurrently activate muscles whose innervation has been shown to be associated with "positive" and "negative" affect (activation vs. inhibition of smiling muscles, vertical vs. horizontal head movements, and arm flexion vs. arm extension). Activation of the positively associated muscle groups led to higher preference ratings for the music pieces than activation of the negatively associated ones. A first exploration of candidate explanations for the effect suggests that it is most likely due to conditioning processes. It is concluded that body movements, both real and imagined, may play an important role in the development of music preferences.

scholarly journals Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEVIN REUTER ◽  
MARKUS WERNING ◽  
LARS KUCHINKE ◽  
ERICA COSENTINO
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Pain Sensitivity ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Memory Bias ◽  
Attention And Memory ◽  
Concrete Nouns ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

abstractThis study explores the relation between pain sensitivity and the cognitive processing of words. 130 participants evaluated the pain-relatedness of a total of 600 two-syllabic nouns, and subsequently reported on their own pain sensitivity. The results demonstrate that pain-sensitive people associate words more strongly with pain than less sensitive people. In particular, concrete nouns like ‘syringe’, ‘wound’, ‘knife’, and ‘cactus’ are considered to be more pain-related for those who are more pain-sensitive. These findings dovetail with recent studies suggesting that certain bodily characteristics influence the way people form mental representations (Casasanto, 2009). We discuss three mechanisms which could potentially account for our findings: attention and memory bias, prototype analysis, and embodied cognition. We argue that, whereas none of these three accounts can be ruled out, the embodied cognition hypothesis provides a particularly promising view to accommodate our data.

scholarly journals The match in orientation between verbal context and object accelerates change detection

Psihologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-105
Author(s):  
Andrei Holman ◽  
Alexandra Gîrbă
Keyword(s):  
Change Detection ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Object Orientation ◽  
Detection Performance ◽  
Response Latencies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Change Detection Performance

Research in the field of embodied cognition has shown that sensorimotor simulation significantly influences various aspects of cognitive processing. This experiment was designed to test the impact of the sensorimotor simulation of objects? physical proprieties, initiated by the preceding verbal context, on change detection performance. Before performing each of change detection trials, participants were exposed to sentences suggesting a particular object orientation (horizontal or vertical). The orientation in the first display of the objects that were to be replaced in the second was also manipulated. Response latencies results show that the sentences implying the same spatial orientation as that of the to-be-changed object led to a faster detection of its change compared to the sentences that implied the mismatching orientation, an effect that we explain in terms of the superior encoding, facilitated by sensorimotor simulation, of the objects with matching orientation.

scholarly journals THE EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT ON STUDENTS’ USE OF GESTURES WHILE WORKING IN A VIRTUAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY FOR THEIR COGNITIVE ABILITIES

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-57
Author(s):  
Piotr Jagodziński ◽  
Robert Wolski
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Hand Movement ◽  
Chemical Laboratory ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry In Middle School ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Embodied Cognition Theory

One of the cognitive theories is the embodied cognition theory. According to this theory, it is important to use appropriate gestures in the process of assimilating new information and the acquisition of new skills. The further development of information and communication technologies has enabled the development of interfaces that allow the user to control computer programs and electronic devices by using gestures. These Natural User Interfaces (NUI) were used in teaching Chemistry in middle school and secondary school. A virtual chemical laboratory was developed in which students can simulate the performance of laboratory activities, similar to those that are performed in a real lab. The Kinect sensor was used to detect and analyze hand movement. The conducted research established the educational effectiveness of a virtual laboratory, which is an example of a system based on GBS gestures (gesture-based system). The use of the teaching methods and to what extent they increase the student's complete understanding were examined. The results indicate that the use of the gesture-based system in teaching makes it more attractive and increases the quality of teaching Chemistry. Key words: chemistry experiments, educational simulation, gesture based system, embodied cognition theory.

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