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Embodiment theory and education: The foundations of cognition in perception and action

Markus Kiefer, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2012 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 1, pp 15-20
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A comprehensive overview of embodied cognition in the domains of event memory, memory for concrete, abstract and number concepts as well as reading and writing can be found in this article, where the authors highlight the relevance of appropriate sensory and motor interactions during learning for the efficient development of human cognition.
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This article is published in Trends in Neuroscience and Education.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Embodied cognition & Motor cognition.

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"The Wolf Was Only Feeling Hungry": Emotional Understanding and Embodied Cognition through Dramatic Play.

TL;DR: The authors explore how children bring together motor processes, language and perception when embodying emotional states (Condition 1) versus factual events (Condition 2) and explore the effect of emotional states and factual events on their motor processes.
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Designing posters to learn how to teach English

TL;DR: The use of visual aids in language teaching has a long history, and has been shown by modern cognitive psychology to be effective, especially in terms of memorization as discussed by the authors , which has led the educational system and society in general, to downplay the importance of school subjects involving the body or requiring the use of one's hands for technical or artistic pursuits rather than for holding a pen (a more 'intellectual' instrument).
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Cognition and Education: A Bungean Systemic Perspective

TL;DR: In this article, a four-dimensional system schema is proposed to conceive a system of any sort in meaningful and productive ways, especially in experiential learning, and formal education is then supposed to provide for systemic cross-disciplinary curricula designed and deployed under systemic pedagogical frameworks, like the Systemic Cognition and Education framework.
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The psychological aspects within the Yogyakartan Bedhaya: An exploratory study on royal court dancers

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the experiences of court dancers regarding the Bedhaya to identify what psychological aspects are involved in the formation of their experiences, using Moustakas' qualitative phenomenology as the basis of this whole research.
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The Architecture of Cognition

TL;DR: Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT*) as mentioned in this paper is a theory of the basic principles of operation built into the cognitive system and is the main focus of Anderson's theory of cognitive architecture.
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Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought

TL;DR: The Cognitive Science of Philosophy: A Cognitive Science Of Basic Philosophical Ideas as mentioned in this paper The Cognitive science of philosophy is a branch of the philosophy of early Greek metaphysics and philosophy of philosophy.
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What is embodiment theory?

The paper provides an overview of embodied cognition, which proposes that cognition is based on reinstatements of external perception and internal states as well as bodily actions that simulate previous experiences.