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Thoughts in space: the impact of environmental surround on cognitive processing

verfasst von: Jennifer A. Stevens, Vanessa Duffie, Peter M. Vishton

Erschienen in: Cognitive Processing | Sonderheft 1/2015

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Abstract

The embodied cognition perspective has provided a formalization of the idea that the motor state is a characteristic of being that permeates all of human processing. We review this perspective and experimental evidence supporting its claim. It is further considered that the motor behaving human moves within various spaces, each affording different actions. To this end, it is proposed that the environmental surround is a critical variable in the embodied cognition perspective. Thoughts, inasmuch as they may be grounded in simulation of motor-behavioural responses, require time but also space. We suggest that these time–space considerations occur within a proposed concept of the potentiated state.

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Metadaten
Titel
Thoughts in space: the impact of environmental surround on cognitive processing
verfasst von
Jennifer A. Stevens
Vanessa Duffie
Peter M. Vishton
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Cognitive Processing / Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Elektronische ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0683-z

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