Embodied Understanding

Western culture has inherited a view of understanding as an intellectual cognitive operation of grasping of concepts and their relations. However, cognitive science research has shown that this received intellectualist conception is substantially out of touch with how humans actually make and experi...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Author:	Mark Leonard Johnson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Subjects:	emotion Embodied Cognition embodiment meaning embodied understanding bio-functional understanding
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00875/full

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