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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.

Mirko Farina
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 14
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This article is published in Humana.Mente.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 787 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognition & Action (philosophy).

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Extended cognition and the metaphysics of mind

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Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

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Identity, Kinship, and the Evolution of Cooperation

TL;DR: It is proposed that the evolution of human cooperative behavior required a capacity for self-sustained, self-referential thought manifested as an integrated worldview, including a sense of identity and point of view, and the cultural formation of kinship-based social organizational systems within which social identities can be established and transmitted through enculturation.
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Modelling choice in digital writing: functional revisions and 'texture'

TL;DR: A new model of analysis – a combination of keystroke data and functional systemics – is proposed, which can provide an additional perspective to the already existing methods of examining writer behaviour by looking at meaning making practices in revision activity.
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Embodied Creativity: A Critical Analysis of an Underdeveloped Subject

TL;DR: This paper provided a critical examination of the core ideas of this new field, suggesting new experimental paradigms for testing the more radical and often ignored assertions of the embodied cognition program, and concluded that given the extremely small number of papers that are produced on this subject, as well as its obscurity within the scientific community, future research will have to expand its theoretical considerations greatly if the field is to survive and flourish.
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