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Embodied cognition: a field guide

Michael W. Anderson
- 01 Sep 2003 - 
- Vol. 149, Iss: 1, pp 91-130
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The essay reviews recent work in Embodied Cognition, provides a concise guide to its principles, attitudes and goals, and identifies the physical grounding project as its central research focus.
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This article is published in Artificial Intelligence.The article was published on 2003-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 982 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Situated cognition & Embodied cognition.

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