Michael Kimmel

Bio: Michael Kimmel is an academic researcher from University of Vienna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metaphor & Cognitive linguistics. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications receiving 434 citations.

Sources of Embodied Creativity: Interactivity and Ideation in Contact Improvisation.

Abstract: Drawing on a micro-phenomenological paradigm, we discuss Contact Improvisation (CI), where dancers explore potentials of intercorporeal weight sharing, kinesthesia, touch, and momentum. Our aim is to typologically discuss creativity related skills and the rich spectrum of creative resources CI dancers use. This spectrum begins with relatively idea-driven creation and ends with interactivity-centered, fully emergent creation: (1) Ideation internal to the mind, the focus of traditional creativity research, is either restricted to semi-independent dancing or remains schematic and thus open to dynamic specification under the partner’s influence. (2) Most frequently, CI creativity occurs in tightly coupled behavior and is radically emergent. This means that interpersonal synergies emerge without anybody’s prior design or planned coordination. The creative feat is interpersonally “distributed” over cascades of cross-scaffolding. Our micro-genetic data validate notions from dynamic systems theory such as interpersonal self-organization, although we criticize the theory for failing to explain where precisely this leaves skilled intentionality on the individuals’ part. Our answer is that dancers produce a stream of momentary micro-intentions that say “yes, and”, or “no, but” to short-lived micro-affordances, which allows both individuals to skillfully continue, elaborate, tweak, or redirect the collective movement dynamics. Both dancers can invite emergence as part of their playful exploration, while simultaneously bringing to bear global constraints, such as dance scores, and guide the collective dynamics with a set of specialized skills we shall term emergence management.

Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas

Abstract: The hallmark of a genuinely socio-cultural perspective on image schemas must be its ability to account for their variation both across cultures and in situated cognition. To counterbalance the prevalent research strategies which have highlighted highly generic cognitive resources that cross-cut a broad range of different contexts, I propose two complementary analytical strategies that make nuances in image schema usage more visible: The first lies in focusing more on how image schemas interact at the level of whole scenes, at which they form compound gestalts – a step allowing the analyst to get a handle on complex tropes. The second lies in evading the practice of endowing image schemas with a maximally decontextualized ontology – a step opening an avenue to augmented descriptions of image schemas and their context-bound usage. This analytical strategy produces “situated image schemas”, descriptions capturing how “primitive” image schemas are actualized with regard to the kind of embodiment they involve, as well as their intentional, emotional and motivational nature within specific settings, or their embedding within wider action scenarios and even a cultural ethos.

Metaphor Variation in Cultural Context: Perspectives from Anthropology

Abstract: (2004) Metaphor Variation in Cultural Context: Perspectives from Anthropology European Journal of English Studies: Vol 8, No 3, pp 275-294

Affordances in interaction – the case of Aikido

Abstract: Our title can be read as trivially true, namely that perceived affordances shape real-time interaction dynamics. A less trivial reading suggests that affordances themselves interact in a shared dyadic field, such that the number and quality of A's and B's affordances are dynamically coupled with bidirectional causality. In dance, martial arts, or team sports agents strategically comodulate each other's affordances while pursuing their aims. In Aikido, where agents try to break their opponent's balance, this trade-off globally approximates a zero-sum game – the better A's affordances, the lousier B's Affordances are subject to ceaseless cross-causation in this shared field. Practitioners seek to obstruct their opponent's options while strategically enabling, augmenting, and sculpting their own, by employing subtle perceptual manipulation skills, redirecting force, brinkmanship, and switching techniques opportunistically. To overcome static views, we conceptualize affordances as cascading and having...

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

Abstract: Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness-Authors' Response-Acting out our sensory experience

Abstract: Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the world. The activation of this internal representation is assumed to give rise to the experience of seeing. The problem with this kind of approach is that it leaves unexplained how the existence of such a detailed internal representation might produce visual consciousness. An alternative proposal is made here. We propose that seeing is a way of acting. It is a particular way of exploring the environment. Activity in internal representations does not generate the experience of seeing. The outside world serves as its own, external, representation. The experience of seeing occurs when the organism masters what we call the governing laws of sensorimotor contingency. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a natural and principled way of accounting for visual consciousness, and for the differences in the perceived quality of sensory experience in the different sensory modalities. Several lines of empirical evidence are brought forward in support of the theory, in particular: evidence from experiments in sensorimotor adaptation, visual \"filling in,\" visual stability despite eye movements, change blindness, sensory substitution, and color perception.

Cognition In The Wild

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