scholarly journals Movement, Narrative and Multiplicity in Embodied Orientation and Collaboration from Prehistory to the Present

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
David Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Cognitive Map ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Out Of Africa ◽  
Technological Action ◽  
The Brain

The term ‘body of knowledge’ has a double meaning, implying a unified assemblage of knowledge as well as embodied cognition. But knowledge is not naturally unified, as was apparent in the first Body of Knowledge Conference, where the internalist neurosciences presenting themselves as universalist and objective were clearly divided from the externalist performing arts with their more experiential and practice-based character. Assemblage across such divides takes embodied, collaborative, social and technological action. I suggest that bridging of the divides from both sides is now starting to emerge through an augmentation of the dimensions of what Ed Hutchins has called a ‘cognitive ecosystem’ to include a complex multiplicity of culture, history, and exchange. A socio-historical cognitive ecosystem that emphasises the central importance of narrative, collaboration and movement, multiplicity, and orientation in embodied cognitive practises. Building on the talk I gave at the 2016 Body of Knowledge Conference, this paper aims to explore the roles of movement, narrative, and multiplicity in embodied orientation and collaboration, from prehistory to the present. Disparate narratives of movement, multiplicity, collaboration, and cognition that are emerging in a variety of seemingly unrelated disciplines are woven together in three parts: 1) recent neuro-scientific research on the ‘cognitive map’ in the brain; 2) recent reticulated accounts of how hominims moved out of Africa; and 3 how differing knowledge traditions and ontologies can be seen to work together in the case of the chart drawn for Captain Cook by Tupaia, the great Polynesian navigator. 

scholarly journals How to improve the efficiency of our brain?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 346-351
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Zurek ◽  
Michal Sarna ◽  
Alina Zurek ◽  
Ewa Gorski ◽  
Gerda Dalaunay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Intelligence Quotient ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Brain

The efficiency of the brain greatly contributes to a person’s intelligence quotient (IQ), which may ultimately affect one’s social status. Neurophysiological processes and IQ change during a person’s lifetime and depend on a number of factors, including fluid and crystalized intelligence, diet, physical activity and sleep. As described in the literature, the level of fluid intelligence decreases with age. This process can be delayed by implementing mental exercises and physical factors in one’s lifestyle. The SOMECO concept developed in Germany and described in this paper emphasizes the importance of following the most current scientific research in maintaining overall mental health.

scholarly journals Product innovation design and its method: From the perspective of embodiment cognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 04057
Author(s):  
Shengfang Peng ◽  
Baoying Peng ◽  
Xiaoxuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Natural Interaction ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Body Complex ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

In recent years, embodied cognition has become a new approach in the field of cognitive psychology. The shift in cognitive psychology from a focus on the brain to a focus on the human body，just as from the disembodied cognition to the embodied cognition is valuable for many fields related to cognitive science including product design and its method. With Gibson’s theory of affordances, embodied cognition is a perfect explanation of today’s products guided by the idea of intuitive design and its logic. On the premise of embodied cognition, it is the “Mind-Body complex” that serves as the subject of behavior and interaction, the basis of “natural interaction” in Intelligent age, and the foundation for building a more complete theory of “user experience”. Based on the embodied cognitive, the method of design and its research should put more emphasis on specific tools.

The unification of neural activity

1968 ◽  
Vol 171 (1024) ◽  
pp. 353-359 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Nerve Cells ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Simple Hypothesis ◽  
Neural Organization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Brain

In studying the brain, two levels of investigation emerge naturally. One of these concerns itself with properties of nerve cells, their numbers, patterns of firing, interconnexions, and so forth. The other considers the whole nervous system in what one may call ‘macroscopic’ terms. Thus it discusses ‘stimulus’, ‘response’, ‘decision’, etc. At this latter level, the nervous system operates with considerable unity. The individual nerve cells must therefore be linked in a well-integrated manner and the general nature of this integration has been recognized, especially by neurophysiologists such as Sherrington, to present a problem of central importance for our understanding of the brain. In previously published work, I have put forward a theory of how this unification of neural activity might be achieved and of a possible molecular biological basis of the necessary neural organization. In this talk I restrict myself to the first of these and thus give an account of what might be called the basic logic of the unification. I also indicate briefly how a simple hypothesis about the basis of memory would fit into such a theory.

Professional Education in Performing Arts Medicine

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph A Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Huge Challenge

As the body of knowledge that comprises the field of performing arts medicine has grown, it has simultaneously become more important and more difficult for everyone who is concerned about the health of performing artists to stay current with the state of the art. In this regard, performing arts medicine is no different from any other field, but we have a huge challenge as we try to meet the educational needs of the broad variety of professionals who treat, teach, manage and do research on musicians, dancers, and other performing artists. A panel discussion on this subject was part of the 2010 Aspen Symposium on the Healthcare of Performing Artists. ... I will try to summarize where our efforts to educate performing arts medicine professionals stand today and what our options are for the future.

scholarly journals Dynamic N6-methyladenosine RNA methylation in brain and diseases

Epigenomics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M Shafik ◽  
Emily G Allen ◽  
Peng Jin
Keyword(s):  
Brain Development ◽  
Rna Modification ◽  
Normal Brain ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Diseases ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Normal Brain Development

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a dynamic RNA modification that regulates various aspects of RNA metabolism and has been implicated in many biological processes and transitions. m6A is highly abundant in the brain; however, only recently has the role of m6A in brain development been a focus. The machinery that controls m6A is critically important for proper neurodevelopment, and the precise mechanisms by which m6A regulates these processes are starting to emerge. However, the role of m6A in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases still requires much elucidation. This review discusses and summarizes the current body of knowledge surrounding the function of the m6A modification in regulating normal brain development, neurodegenerative diseases and outlines possible future directions.

The Consciousness of Embodied Cognition, Affordances, and the Brain

Topoi ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
The Brain

The Inner Drama of the Body

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Wilson Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
The Brain

Wagnerites and anti-Wagnerites frequently agreed at least in this: that the novelty of Wagner’s art was that it was directed first and foremost at the nerves. And it was not simply audience members who understood Wagner’s music dramas as essentially neural; it was also Wagner himself. Critics have long appreciated the importance of Wagner’s Beethoven essay of 1870, an essay that theorizes Wagner’s late movement toward “inner drama” and toward the dominance of music over text. Largely unappreciated, however, is the central importance of the neurological sciences in this transition; what Wagner aimed at in this essay was not simply the inner drama of the psyche but also—and inextricably—the inner drama of the body: that is, the drama of the brain and the nervous system. It is this profoundly neuropsychological understanding of art that drives Wagner’s late work—above all his final music drama, Parsifal.

scholarly journals Brown-Séquard: On neural networks and brain localization of functions

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-82
Author(s):  
Eliasz Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Functional Organization ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Brain Localization ◽  
Physical Functions ◽  
Action At A Distance ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Neuroimaging Techniques

ABSTRACT The notion that the brain (encephalon) is a network of interconnected neurons has a long and memorable history. Cytoarchitectonic and hodological studies coupled with advanced neuroimaging techniques have produced a substantial body of knowledge on structural and functional organization. Acquiring the rich knowledge held today took a long and winding journey. Important advancements were made in the 19th century, with the remarkable Brown-Séquard figuring as one of the protagonists. Regarding the brain, he proposed nine mental and physical functions (organs) related to distributed cell clusters, interconnected according to their roles, the "network of anastomosing cells", dynamically submitted to "dynamogenic and inhibitory activities", and "action at a distance" concepts, the latter also related to his notion of "recovery". It is remarkable that someone was able to propose, ahead of his time, and with the limited technical resources available, such significant concepts that paved the way for the current state of knowledge.

scholarly journals Oz Never Did Give Nothing to the Scarecrow: Neurophenomenology and Critical Pedagogy

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Garfield McInerney
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Human Learning ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Subjugated Knowledge ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Formal Operations

Using the film the Wizard of Oz, an illustrative comparison is made between the Scarecrow's learning experiences and our own. Like we often do, the Scarecrow reduces his potential learning and thinking abilities to nothing more than the formal operations presumably at work in the brain. Ostensibly lacking this brain, the Scarecrow solves nearly all the problems encountered in the journey to Oz. A neurophenomenological description of the Scarecrow's experiences reveals his prereflective, situated learning, and embodied cognition. These ways of learning are often ignored and devalued in our educational system. Can this same method reveal our own subjugated knowledges? Herein, neurophenomenology is demonstrated as a critical pedagogy that critiques and liberates subjugated knowledge and supports a richer assessment of human learning and thinking.

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