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Embodiment theory and education: The foundations of cognition in perception and action

Markus Kiefer, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2012 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 1, pp 15-20
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A comprehensive overview of embodied cognition in the domains of event memory, memory for concrete, abstract and number concepts as well as reading and writing can be found in this article, where the authors highlight the relevance of appropriate sensory and motor interactions during learning for the efficient development of human cognition.
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This article is published in Trends in Neuroscience and Education.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Embodied cognition & Motor cognition.

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Experiential learning – a systematic review and revision of Kolb’s model

TL;DR: A revision to Kolb’s model is proposed: experiential learning consists of contextually rich concrete experience, critical reflective observation, contextual-specific abstract conceptualization, and pragmatic active experimentation.
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An Embedded and Embodied Cognition Review of Instructional Manipulatives

TL;DR: The authors argued that perceptual and interactive richness may provide opportunities for alleviating cognitive load, and that transfer of learning is not reliant on decontextualized knowledge but may draw on previous sensorimotor experiences of the kind afforded by perceptual or interactive richness of manipulatives.
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Towards Continual Reinforcement Learning: A Review and Perspectives.

TL;DR: A taxonomy of different continual RL formulations and mathematically characterize the non-stationary dynamics of each setting is provided, providing an overview of benchmarks used in the literature and important metrics for understanding agent performance.
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Developing embodied cognition: insights from children’s concepts and language processing

TL;DR: It is proposed that in order for an embodied cognition perspective to be refined and advanced as a lifelong theory of cognition, it is important to consider what can be learned from research with children.
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Don’t Forget About the Body: Exploring the Curricular Possibilities of Embodied Pedagogy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors offer an integration of extant literature analyzing isolated applications of embodied pedagogy into a holistic curricular vision, employing a constructivist lens informed by the socially situated perspectives of critical pedagology.
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The Architecture of Cognition

TL;DR: Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT*) as mentioned in this paper is a theory of the basic principles of operation built into the cognitive system and is the main focus of Anderson's theory of cognitive architecture.
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Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought

TL;DR: The Cognitive Science of Philosophy: A Cognitive Science Of Basic Philosophical Ideas as mentioned in this paper The Cognitive science of philosophy is a branch of the philosophy of early Greek metaphysics and philosophy of philosophy.
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What is embodiment theory?

The paper provides an overview of embodied cognition, which proposes that cognition is based on reinstatements of external perception and internal states as well as bodily actions that simulate previous experiences.