Aymerich Franch, Laura2019-04-252019-04-252018Aymerich-Franch L. Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?. New Ideas Psychol. 2018 Aug;50;1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.02.0030732-118Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/37133Emerging 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.application/pdfeng© Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.02.003info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.02.003Mediated embodimentEmbodied cognitionEmbodimentAvatarVirtual realityRobotsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess