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A-Z of Embodied Cognition: Key Terms and Essential Concepts book cover

1st Edition

A-Z of Embodied Cognition Key Terms and Essential Concepts

By Ezequiel A. Di Paolo Copyright 2027
316 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book compiles and explains the key terms and core concepts related to embodied cognition in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format. Research in embodied cognition has grown organically over the past decades, and as a result, there is an abundance of technical concepts, schools of thought, and theoretical proposals that partly overlap, partly complement, and sometimes even contradict each other. To... Read more

Introduction

A

  • Activity and passivity
  • Adaptivity
  • Aesthetic experience
  • Affectivity
  • Affordances
  • Agency
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Atmospheres
  • Autonomy
  • Autopoiesis

B

  • Basal cognition
  • Behavior settings
  • Behaviorism
  • Bodies
  • Body image
  • Body ownership
  • Body schema
  • Brain in a vat
  • Brain

C

  • Cognitive ethnography
  • Computation
  • Concepts
  • Constraints
  • Coordination dynamics
  • Coupling

D

  • Direct perception
  • Direct social perception
  • Dreaming
  • Dynamical systems
  • Dynamical systems methods

E

  • Ecological psychology
  • Embeddedness
  • Embodied functionalism
  • Emergence
  • Enactive approach
  • Environment
  • Extended functionalism

G

  • Gender and sexuality

H

  • Habits

I

  • Imagination
  • Incorporation
  • Information
  • Intercorporeality
  • Interoception
  • Intersubjectivity

K

  • Kinesthesia
  • Knowing-how and knowing-that

L

  • Language
  • Leib/Körper distinction
  • Life–mind continuity
  • Lived experience

M

  • Material engagement theory
  • Mathematics
  • Memory
  • Mereological fallacies
  • Minimal cognition
  • Mirror neurons
  • Mobile neuroscience
  • Motor intentionality
  • Multiple realizability

N

  • Normativity

O

  • Operational closure

P

  • Participatory sense-making
  • Perception–action loops
  • Phantom limbs
  • Phenomenological methods
  • Plasticity
  • Precariousness
  • Prenatal embodiment

R

  • Radical sensorimotor adaptation
  • Robotics

S

  • Sense of agency
  • Sense-making
  • Sensorimotor approach
  • Sensorimotor development
  • Sensory substitution
  • Situated cognition
  • Skills and expertise
  • Social interaction
  • Soft assembly
  • Somatic symptom disorders
  • Spatiality
  • Structural coupling
  • Synergies

T

  • Tensegrity
  • Thinking and rationality
  • Time consciousness

U

  • Umwelt

V

  • Viability
  • Vitality forms

W

  • World-involvement

Z

  • Zero-point (Nullpunkt)

Biography

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is a Research Professor working at Ikerbasque, the Basque Science Foundation in Spain, and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. His interdisciplinary work on embodied and enactive approaches to life, mind, and society integrates work from cognitive science, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and computational modelling. His research focus is on enactive theory, embodied intersubjectivity, language, ethics, and participatory sense-making. He is (co)author of over 200 publications, including the books Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal (2017, Oxford University Press) and Linguistic Bodies. The Continuity between Life and Language (2018, MIT Press). He is co-editor of the annotated edition of Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (2025, MIT Press).

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