Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

Thirty years ago, grounded cognition had roots in philosophy, perception, cognitive
linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuropsychology. During …

According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

Grounded theories assume that there is no central module for cognition. According to this
view, all cognitive phenomena, including those considered the province of amodal cognition …

Research in embodied and grounded cognition is defined by the types of hypotheses
researchers pursue, with specific emphasis on the ways in which the body, brain, and …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Embodied cognition is a research program comprising an array of methods from diverse
theoretical fields (eg, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, etc.) held together by the key …

The nature of cognition is being re-considered. Instead of emphasizing formal operations on
abstract symbols, the new approach foregrounds the fact that cognition is, rather, a situated …

As this volume makes clear, research on embodied cognition draws from a number of
disciplines and is supported by a variety of methodological strategies. In this chapter I focus …

Following the cognitive revolution, when knowing and learning have come to be theorized in
terms of representations stored and processed in the mind, empirical and theoretical …