UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Body-in-Motion: Broadening the Social Mind Publication Date Body-in-Motion: Broadening the Social Mind (original) (raw)
Embodiment has become an important concept in many areas of cognitive science during the past two decades, but yet there is no common understanding of what actually constitutes embodied cognition. Much focus has been on what kind of 'bodily realization' is necessary for embodied cognition, but crucial factors such as the role of social interaction and the body-in-motion have still not received much attention. Based on empirical evidence from child development, we emphasize the experience of self-produced locomotion behavior as a crucial driving force to the emergence of the so-called "nine-month revolution" in human infants. We argue that the intertwining of social scaffolding and self-produced locomotion behavior is fundamental to the development of joint attention activities and a 'self' in the human child.
Sign up for access to the world's latest research.
checkGet notified about relevant papers
checkSave papers to use in your research
checkJoin the discussion with peers
checkTrack your impact
Loading Preview
Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.