Embodied cognition: a field guide

  • Authors:
  • Michael L. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

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 activity, and suggests that thinking beings ought therefore be considered first and foremost as acting beings. 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.