Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?

Aymerich Franch, Laura

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.02.003

Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?

Citation

Aymerich-Franch L. Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?. New Ideas Psychol. 2018 Aug;50;1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.02.003

Abstract

Emerging technologies such as virtual reality and robots are evolving to increasingly integrate the user into the interface. During this temporary merge, users experience a digital or a robotic body of an avatar as their own. Embodied cognition sustains that the body and its interactions with the environment play an important role in cognition. I argue that the adoption of mediated embodiment technologies to explore cognitive development might substantially contribute to demonstrating the postulates of embodied cognition.