2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition
Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student and scholar of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
Extensively revised and enlarged for this second edition, the Handbook comprises 42 chapters by an international team of expert contributors and is divided into ten parts:
• Historical Underpinnings
• Perspectives on Embodied Cognition
• Embodied Cognition and Predictive Processing
• Perception
• Language
• Reasoning and Education
• Virtual Reality
• Social and Moral Cognition and Emotion
• Action and Memory
• Reflections on Embodied Cognition.
The early chapters of the Handbook cover empirical and philosophical foundations of embodied cognition, focusing on Gibsonian and phenomenological approaches. Subsequent chapters cover additional, important themes common to work in embodied cognition, including embedded, extended, and enactive cognition as well as chapters on empirical research in perception, language, reasoning, social and moral cognition, emotion, consciousness, memory, and learning and development.
For the second edition many existing chapters have been revised and seven new chapters added on: AI and robotics, predictive processing, second-language learning, animal cognition, sport psychology, sense of self, and critiques of embodied cognition, bringing the Handbook fully up to date with current research and debate.
Introduction Lawrence Shapiro and Shannon Spaulding
Part 1: Historical Underpinnings
1. Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition Shaun Gallagher
2. A Ten Commandments for Ecological Psychology Claire Michaels and Zsolt Palatinus
Part 2: Perspectives on Embodied Cognition
3. First-order Embodiment, Second-order Embodiment, Third-order Embodiment Thomas Metzinger
4. Extended Cognition Ken Aizawa
5. Complex Dynamical Systems Modeling in the Cognitive Sciences Michael Richardson and Anthony Chemero
6. Embedded and Situated Cognition M. R. W. Dawson
7. The Enactive Approach Evan Thompson and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Part 3: Embodied Cognition and Predictive Processing
8. Integrating Embodied Cognition and Predictive Processing Elmarie Venter
9. Predicting the Body or Embodied Prediction? New Directions in Embodied Predictive Processing Luke Kersten
10. Predictive processing and embodiment in emotion Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi, Suzanne Oosterwijk, and Lisa Feldman Barrett
11. Visual Experience Michael Madary
Part 4: Perception
12. Extended reality (XR) in embodied musical art and science Pieter-Jan Maes, Bavo van Kerrebroeck, Mattia Rosso, Ioulia Marouda, and Marc Leman
13. Enactive Vision Erik Myin and Farid Zahnoun
14. Perception and/for/with/as Action Cedar Riener and Jeanine Stefanucci
Part 5: Language
15. Bodily Relativity Daniel Casasanto
16. Embodied Approaches to Language Comprehension Michael Kaschak, Michael Long, and Julie Madden
17. The Grounding of Concrete and Abstract Language: Consolidated Evidence, New Issues, and New Challenges Claudia Scorolli and Claudia Mazzuca
18. Linking Words to World: An Embodiment Perspective Chen Yu
Part 6: Reasoning and Education
19. Gesture in Reasoning: An Embodied Perspective Martha Alibali, Rebecca Boncoddo, and Autumn Hostetter
20. The Embodied Dynamics of Problem Solving: New Structure from Multi-Scale Interactions James A. Dixon, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, Benjamin De Bari, and Jason Anastas
21. Advancements of Grounded and Embodied Mathematical Reasoning: Theory, Technology, and Research Methods Mitchell Nathan
22. Embodiment in Education Virginia Flood
23. Embodied Learning: Translating Embodied Cognition Research Sheila L. Macrine and Jennifer M.B. Fugate
Part 7: Virtual Reality
24. Embodied Experiences in Gameplay Tarja Susi and Niklas Torstensson
25. Minds in the Matrix: Embodied Cognition and Virtual Reality Paul Smart
26. Embodied Cognition and Movement-Driven Practices Zuzanna Rucinska and Susanne Ravn
27. Human Augmentation: Re-inventing Embodiment Frédérique de Vignemont
Part 8: Social and Moral Cognition and Emotion
28. Embodied Cognition and Theory of Mind, Shannon Spaulding
29. Mindshaping and Embodied Habits Michelle Maiese
30. The Embodiment of Culture Tamer Soliman and Art Glenberg
31. The Constitution of Group Cognition Gerry Stahl
32. Varieties of Group Cognition Georg Theiner
33. Morality in the Body Chen-Bo Zhong and Brendan Strejcek
34. Embodied Emotion Concepts Paula Niedenthal, Adrienne Wood, Magdalena Rychlowska, and Anna Orlowska
Part 9: Action and Memory
35. Memory and Action Katinka Dijkstra
36. Motor Resonance: Neurophysiological Origin, Functional Role, and Contribution of the Motivational, Moral and Social Aspects of Action Laila Craighero
37. The Embodiment of Attention in the Action-Perception Loop Michael Spivey and Stephanie Huette
38. Embodied Remembering John Sutton and Kellie Williamson
Part 10: Reflections on Embodied Cognition
39. The Replication Crisis in Embodied Cognition Research Edouard Machery
40. Embodied Cognition Needs an Upgrade Guy Dove
41. Cognition Gary Hatfield
42. Revolution, Reform, or Business as Usual? The Future Prospects for Embodied Cognition Michael Wheeler.
Index
Biography
Lawrence Shapiro is the Berent Enç Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. The American Philosophical Association awarded his book Embodied Cognition the Gittler Award for outstanding contribution in the field of philosophy of the social sciences (second edition 2019, Routledge).
Shannon Spaulding is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, USA. Her research focuses on social cognition, imagination, and embodied cognition. She is the author of the book How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition (Routledge 2018).
Praise for the First Edition:
"With this collection of essays, written by active researchers based in the US and Europe, Shapiro provides an up-to-date description of the theory’s historical roots and philosophical underpinnings, along with supporting empirical evidence from human studies employing cognitive tasks and neuroimaging. … Given the fact that research in this area cuts across multiple disciplines - including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive science, robotics, and artificial intelligence - and is rapidly expanding, this is a timely and important work for scholars. … Summing Up: Highly recommended." - K. G. Akers, CHOICE
"This excellent collection arrives at a most appropriate time in the history of cognitive science. The editor’s choice of topics and contributors is skillful, and remarkably - given how difficult these topics can become - the chapters will be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike." - Gordon Bermant, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"This is an essential collection for researchers working in any area of cognitive science, and one that transitions embodied cognition from its position as a reactionary discipline to a research programme in its own right. I expect this volume will act as a springboard for exciting new directions in teaching and research." - Stefan Linquist, University of Guelph, Canada
"This Handbook is a landmark in the embodied cognition field. It stands as a singular introduction to the methods and commitments of embodied cognition across a wide array of topics, with original chapters by some of the most prominent philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists at work today." - Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
"Unparalleled in its accessibility and breadth of coverage, this volume serves as a perfect introduction to embodied cognition while also being enormously useful to experts. It includes cutting-edge ideas, illuminating reviews of standard positions and theoretical controversies, and a plethora of specific applications across the gamut of cognition, though always with an eye on the big picture." - Dan Ryder, University of British Columbia - Okanagan, Canada