Embodied Perspectives on Behavioral Cognitive Enhancement

Zona, Carlotta Isabella; Raab, Markus; Fischer, Martin H.

doi:10.1007/s41465-018-0102-3

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“…Below, we define and elaborate of the concept of representations. From the moderate perspective, cognitive processes are based on or are at least moderated by sensorimotor processes (Barsalou, 2016; Zona et al, 2018). The conceptual basis of this paper is that empirical findings indicating effects of sensorimotor processes on cognitive processes cannot be ignored (Goldinger et al, 2016) or explained as an “epiphenomenon” (Topolinski, 2010).…”

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Embodied Cognition With and Without Mental Representations: The Case of Embodied Choices in Sports

Raab

Araújo

2019

Front. Psychol.

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In this conceptual analysis contribution to the special issue on radical embodied cognition, we discuss how embodied cognition can exist with and without representations. We explore this concept through the lens of judgment and decision-making in sports (JDMS). Embodied cognition has featured in many investigations of human behavior, but no single approach has emerged. Indeed, the very definitions of the concepts “embodiment” and “cognition” lack consensus, and consequently the degree of “radicalism” is not universally defined, either. In this paper, we address JDMS not from a rigid theoretical perspective but from two embodied cognition approaches: one that assumes there is mediation between the athlete and the environment through mental representation, and another that assumes direct contact between the athlete and the environment and thus no need for mental representation. Importantly, our aim was not to arrive at a theoretical consensus or set up a competition between approaches but rather to provide a legitimate scientific discussion about how to explain empirical results in JDMS from contrasting perspectives within embodied cognition. For this, we first outline the definitions and constructs of embodied cognition in JDMS. Second, we detail the theory underlying the mental representation and direct contact approaches. Third, we comment on two published research papers on JDMS, one selected by each of us: (1) Correia et al. (2012) and (2) Pizzera (2012) . Fourth, following the interpretation of the empirical findings of these papers, we present a discussion on the commonalities and divergences of these two perspectives and the consequences of using one or the other approach in the study of JDMS.

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Embodied Cognition With and Without Mental Representations: The Case of Embodied Choices in Sports

Raab

Araújo

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…Interactiveness, as facilitated by using VR, is also the central research topic in embodied learning. Research suggests that learning, even of abstract concepts or ideas, is aided by physically exploring them 7–9 . This has not only been shown in children, but also in adults 10–12 and in a range of different tasks such as counting 13,14 , language 15 , letter recognition 16,17 , music concepts 18 and understanding of physics 19 .…”

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An immersive first-person navigation task for abstract knowledge acquisition

Kuhrt

John

Bellmund

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Advances in virtual reality (VR) technology have greatly benefited spatial navigation research. By presenting space in a controlled manner, changing aspects of the environment one at a time or manipulating the gain from different sensory inputs, the mechanisms underlying behaviour can be investigated. In parallel, a growing body of evidence suggests that the processes involved in spatial navigation extend to non-spatial domains. Here, we leverage VR technology advances to test whether participants can navigate abstract knowledge. We designed a two-dimensional quantity space - presented using a head-mounted display - to test if participants can navigate abstract knowledge using a first-person perspective navigation paradigm. To investigate the effect of physical movement, we divided participants into two groups: one walking and rotating on a motion platform, the other group using a gamepad to move through the abstract space. We found that both groups learned to navigate using a first-person perspective and formed accurate representations of the abstract space. Interestingly, exploratory behaviour in the abstract space resembled behavioural patterns observed in spatial navigation studies. Notably, both groups demonstrated similar patterns of learning. Taken together, these results imply that both self-movement and remote exploration can be used to learn the relational mapping between abstract, non-spatial stimuli.

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“…The third year of Journal of Cognitive Enhancement (2019) included a broad overview of theory-driven cognitive enhancing articles ranging from cognitive training for military application (Blacker et al 2019), a new perspective suggesting that embodied cognition represents a productive framework to explain results and to inform new studies aimed at enhancing cognition (Zona et al, 2019), the enhancing effects of dancing on cognition in aging (Predovan et al, 2019), the drawbacks of meditation practice (Anderson et al, 2019), and the potential negative effects of brain stimulation for cognitive enhancement (Krause et al, 2019).…”

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Editorial: Three Years of Journal of Cognitive Enhancement

Colzato

2020

J Cogn Enhanc

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Embodied Perspectives on Behavioral Cognitive Enhancement

Cited by 10 publications

References 91 publications

Embodied Cognition With and Without Mental Representations: The Case of Embodied Choices in Sports

Embodied Cognition With and Without Mental Representations: The Case of Embodied Choices in Sports

An immersive first-person navigation task for abstract knowledge acquisition

Editorial: Three Years of Journal of Cognitive Enhancement

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